On my head!
For her!
“Football’s a man’s sport.”
“You’re pretty good for a girl.”
“Do you really know the offside rule?”
“Well you kick like a girl.”
Damn straight, I am a girl.
“Do you know the offside rule?”
Ah this is like, the..
Classic, classic.
Seriously, I’ve been playing football for like, twenty years.
And I’ve literally sat there and explained it and they’re like, “Oh you do know it!”
Yeah when you get the salt and pepper out.
The ketchup and the mayo.
It’s not rocket science.
Then you know, they go, “Oh who won the last World Cup?” or you know, “Who won
the Premier League?”
Yeah it starts a whole like, quiz.
Go on then, you teach me.
This bowl is a defender.
Just on the assumption that they have superior football intellect, because they are male,
because they have a dick.
Or in the terms of Bend It Like Beckham, if the French mustard is past the ketchup, it’s
offside.
Yeah I like that one better.
“Do you cry when you lose?”
Yes.
Of course I do.
I cry when we win.
It’s passion.
Yeah.
So do you.
So does the guys.
It’s just another way to say that we’re fragile.
We’re not fragile.
It’s not beneficial for the men either, because that, you know assumes that they can’t
show any vulnerability or you know Yeah or emotion.
It’s good for men and women to cry.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a free kick against Portsmouth in January 2008 and I’m not a
United fan but that goal brought a tear to my eye.
“You’re well fit” Thanks.
Generally, if you are a female in a football space, you’re immediately rated on how attractive
you are.
Best legs, best tits, best arse, you know.
They’re not really looking at like, the talent.
Some of my players get sexually harassed by people in the park.
Men get judged on how good they are or They’re abilities.
It’s either, “Oh look at all those girls they’re well fit” or, “Look at all the
lesbians playing football.”
I can’t remember the last time anyone has ever said to me personally...
“What’s your record?”
Or like how many minutes you’ve played or anything.
It’s true.
Sad true.
“Women’s football is boring.”
Question number one; have you actually watched women’s football?
No they haven’t.
It’s not boring.
It might be, kind of different to the guy’s game.
We’re only what, three or four years into women’s football being full time.
It’s about awareness, about the narrative, about building a bigger story.
The theatrics of the women’s football is great.
A lot less diving as well, seriously.
And arguing with the ref.
Oh Jesus Christ I literally hear this all the time.
“You must be one of the lads.”
I am a total lad.
I’m not one of the lads.
What is a lad now?
I just like what I like, I do what I do.
Banter, going to the pub.
I do all of that so maybe I am a lad.
In Year ten at the time my boyfriend told me to give up football, otherwise…
So I cut it with him.
I think some boys like it if they are into football.
Now, in terms of…
You’re getting like, messages all the time.
Isn’t it?
Yeah, sliding in the DMs, “Oh do you need a training partner?”
“You kick like a girl” Damn well I do.
To be fair, I feel like I’ve probably said that to a guy.
I am a girl.
How else would I kick?
What do girls kick like?
If I can kick like Kelly Smith…
I you know, strike with my laces.
I’ve heard, “Oh do you play like, three sets of thirty?”
And “Are there actually referees and linesman?”
There is no difference, apart from we’ve got tits and they haven’t.
Well…
Yeah.
I knew I was going to get this question.
“Are you a lesbian?”
Yes, yes I am.
I am not.
Yeah me too, so there’s that ice breaker gone.
High five.
There you go.
You’ll probably find it is a lot more accepted, and then people start to realize it’s not
actually an issue.
They like, want percentages.
“What percentage of your team are gay?”
I used to get asked it when I played in a boy’s football team, but I probably had
about five boyfriends in the team so…
“I bet it gets bitchy when you’re all on your period.”
We don’t even play we just like, moan and argue.
No just argue and just like, yeah.
I don’t think we’re all on our period at the same time.
Hmmm!
You should be giving us credit that we’re kind of playing, even when we’re on our
period.
Being slightly aggressive is something that comes with playing football.
If you’re a woman you’re a bitch, if you’re a man you’re just assertive.
Whether you’re a guy or a girl it’s just like, your competitive nature coming out.
“You’re not a professional though right?”
No, are you?
It’s becoming a lot more likely that you know, if you’re playing top flight you are
profesional.
It’s not actually all about being paid, and it shows that within the women’s game
because think about it, the women are getting chicken change basically.
I do think it is disgusting but at the same time, I also think football’s not been ever
about money.
One; Katie Chapman.
Three children, does the school run in the morning, will play full time football, probably
one of the best around.
Think about how kickass that is like, the fact that they’re professional footballers,
and they hold down another job.
You just look at her like...
Superwoman.
Yeah.
I love this one.
“It’s a man’s game.”
It’s 2017.
Wake up.
It is not a man’s game.
All I’ve ever really known is football.
So since such a young age like, my dad played football, my grandad played football.
I love football more than pretty much anything in the world.
I’ve just always thought of it as just football.
You know there is no male or female, it’s just football.
Football is awesome.