And about time to. Now lets poach Phillip Neville to be coach
United finally setting up a women's team | Championship application successful
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Maybe American owners will come in handy at last, with women's football being so big over there. A couple of top yanks would be a good addition to the home-grown girls.
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I thought we had been playing a womans team since Fergie left.
Baddum tish.
Baddum tish.
I said on twitter a few years ago when this topic came up, but they should bring in Alex Morgan to be the face of the team if they had any sense. She is probably the face of soccer in the USA not only for her ability but yes, her looks as well if everyone is being honest. But seeing as how they love their marketability here, getting someone as big as Morgan would be a huge coup in getting this all started up.
Agreed. The tunnel area especially needs a massive revamp. I saw the tunnel cam from the Brighton game and it's a shambles really. I don't like how it's situated on the side of the stadium either. Why can't the tunnel be in the central area like all the other clubs? It won't be long before we are overtaken as the biggest club ground in the country too with how so many clubs are either expanding or building new stadiums. Everything is too slow.
Getting Katie Zelem back from Juve would also be nice.
Good stuff. No reason not to have a team and a club like United should do what it can to promote and better the women's football. Can't have City hogging all the limelight.
Is this fecking serious? They finally doing it?!! Or perhaps they confusing woman football team with cheerleaders that United is planning on bring it to Old Trafford?
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Morgan plays for the European champions lyonaiss and I believe earns 450k USD a year (second highest paid female player after Marta). What can a United women's team in infancy and in a lower league offer her except for its name?
Just throw the money and get her in!
God no.
Can't be arsed about it. I get the equal rights thing going on nowadays, but women's sports barring tennis/badminton has never been my cup of tea.
I'd love to know who you think will have a stadium with a bigger capacity than Old Trafford any time soon, i'm not sure Arsenal have scope to increase, Spurs new capacity is fixed at 62,000, Liverpool are unlikely to move now after recent improvements and there's talk they are going to do more work at Anfield to add a few 1000, and City won't embarrass themselves by expanding again when they can't even fill the ground at the minute when they are miles ahead at the top of the League.
Given we've been coaching young girls to be professional footballers for ages It makes sense to be able to play them at the end of it.
That said I do like the idea of previous posters of proper women's clubs being made. I doubt it would work but it would be cool to have a whole league of new women's clubs up and down the country, if none league football survives I'm sure a proper women's league with financial backing would probably work.
That said I do like the idea of previous posters of proper women's clubs being made. I doubt it would work but it would be cool to have a whole league of new women's clubs up and down the country, if none league football survives I'm sure a proper women's league with financial backing would probably work.
Wow welcome to the 1800's.
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Fine with this. Fully expect the faux excitement to be exposed the moment the regular attendance settles around at barely three figures per game, mind you. Level of interest in women's football really isn't that high to make the majority of the 'OMG! Thank Christ!" responses genuine. Nor do I understand the idea that somehow it was embarrassing not to have one. I can't remember a single rival fan ever mention it ever. I remember being mocked for going out of the CL, honestly I can't remember a single time a rival group of fans singing "Stand Up If You've Got a Women's Team!" to mock us.
Women's football is a thing already, yet outside of the World Cup or the Shebegeebies Cup, or whatever it's called, how many here give it attention?
As I say absolutely fine with us having a woman's team but let people put their money where their mouth is and support it instead of using women's football merely as a vehichle to show how 'right on' they are when threads exist to provide them with such an opportunity and ignore it the rest of the time. Maybe I've just overlooked all those threads in the Football section discussing the Women's Super League, talking about Yeovil Town Ladies chances of getting off the bottom, wondering whether Arsenal Women are too far adrift to make a title challenge. Or maybe they don't exist.
Might piss off a few people but given the complete lack of interest in the actual women's league that's running in this country, I suspect the interest in women's football for the vast majority here will start and end at somehow pretending they give a toss that we don't have a team.
Women's football is a thing already, yet outside of the World Cup or the Shebegeebies Cup, or whatever it's called, how many here give it attention?
As I say absolutely fine with us having a woman's team but let people put their money where their mouth is and support it instead of using women's football merely as a vehichle to show how 'right on' they are when threads exist to provide them with such an opportunity and ignore it the rest of the time. Maybe I've just overlooked all those threads in the Football section discussing the Women's Super League, talking about Yeovil Town Ladies chances of getting off the bottom, wondering whether Arsenal Women are too far adrift to make a title challenge. Or maybe they don't exist.
Might piss off a few people but given the complete lack of interest in the actual women's league that's running in this country, I suspect the interest in women's football for the vast majority here will start and end at somehow pretending they give a toss that we don't have a team.
Slightly off topic, but it's there so that emergency vehicles can get access. If it were in the middle of the ground, there's no way for anything much larger than a 4x4 to get inside the stadium. If you've ever been to the ground, you can understand that the current layout doesn't allow for another option.
About time!
Wish that attitude was as far back as that. More like 30/40 years ago.Wow welcome to the 1800's.
Even now there’s crap like this.
Well done United, about time.
I guess it is a nice thing to have, though I can't say I would ever watch a game. It will be interesting to see if highlights and news from them gets pushed out just as much on the main united page as the mens team, or if they will just end up being a foot note.
A tiny amount of research will show that women already did set up their own independent teams with no links to existing clubs. The majority of women's teams were like this until fairly recently, when many of them partnered up with professional men's clubs many years after their founding.
Am I alone in not caring whether we have or do not have a women's team?
I doubt if even 1% of the people who claim this is a good idea even bother to watch any of the games.
Still, onwards and upwards as they say.
I doubt if even 1% of the people who claim this is a good idea even bother to watch any of the games.
Still, onwards and upwards as they say.
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What difference does it make to you?
Yeah I know mate and it is incredibly sad, actually it's more than sad it's disgusting and quite offensive too. I was just using the 1800's for extra emphasis, although the 1960's would have worked just as well.
Again, I agree. About bloody time United!
Eh, WTF. I never said I was against it, I said I don't like watching it which is my choice, be it women's cricket or football. If others think its' good, happy for them.
Serena Williams is one of my favorite sportswomen, so I doubt my post was misogynistic in any manner.
Oh yeah, I get it you are a "local lad" while I am a foreigner who is 25,000 light years away from OT. Here's your medal, now jog on.
Next step - Why aren't the women team paid as much as the mens' team are?!
Meh. I would still prefer to see additional finances from the FA go to setting up new women's teams, with their own identity and focus purely on them. The women's side of it will always be second fiddle to the men's.
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About time too. Excellent news!
I've kind of got into the higher level England internationals a bit. Not sure if I could muster the enthusiasm to follow the United team. I doubt the Glazer's will invest that much so I worry what status we will achieve.
All in all it is a smart move. The profile of the women's game is growing and we need a side.
All in all it is a smart move. The profile of the women's game is growing and we need a side.
Christ, they'll be wanting to vote next.
Seriously, about bloody time. Will probably be more entertaining than the current dross the lads serve up.
Seriously, about bloody time. Will probably be more entertaining than the current dross the lads serve up.
Announce Ada Hegerberg and Alex Morgan!
Good, about time.
Those who are saying the difference in standard between the men’s and women’s game are correct.....but it’s going to get closer.
I watch quite a bit of youth football (my cousin plays for England girls) and a lot of the girls are far better technically than the boys at youth level. Just last week one of the girls played with the under 16’s boys in an international game and was one of the better players.
You also find that a lot of newly qualified coaches go into Women’s/girls football as in the men’s game it is still about who you are mates with not what qualifications or abilities you have. Which brings in fresh ideas and talented coaches.
Give it five more years and the quality wil be very close.
Also for those who are saying hope we sign fitties.....please go along and watch your local women’s/girls side and you will see the enthusiasm and determination they put in, they are not there just to be stared at by blokes that don’t have 10% of the footballing ability they do.....
Those who are saying the difference in standard between the men’s and women’s game are correct.....but it’s going to get closer.
I watch quite a bit of youth football (my cousin plays for England girls) and a lot of the girls are far better technically than the boys at youth level. Just last week one of the girls played with the under 16’s boys in an international game and was one of the better players.
You also find that a lot of newly qualified coaches go into Women’s/girls football as in the men’s game it is still about who you are mates with not what qualifications or abilities you have. Which brings in fresh ideas and talented coaches.
Give it five more years and the quality wil be very close.
Also for those who are saying hope we sign fitties.....please go along and watch your local women’s/girls side and you will see the enthusiasm and determination they put in, they are not there just to be stared at by blokes that don’t have 10% of the footballing ability they do.....
It's hilarious that some of you feel so threatened by this.
Finally! 
Now go and be the best Womens team, nice addition to our history.
Honestly, won't watch any of the football (except few highlights) but will follow the progress, hoping there's a good easy access media medium for that.
Good for the fans, girls and women who wants to play for their girlhood club United, and benefits the club in many ways.
Now go and be the best Womens team, nice addition to our history.Honestly, won't watch any of the football (except few highlights) but will follow the progress, hoping there's a good easy access media medium for that.
Good for the fans, girls and women who wants to play for their girlhood club United, and benefits the club in many ways.
Possibly.
I can hear the chant 'Ladies in reeeeeeddddddd'
Great news. Looking forward to it.
Great news. Looking forward to it.
I don't think it'll be called this as Manchester United is a brand and the ladies team will be a branch off the brand.
There is, put simply, a way forward and a way backward - and this is the way forward. It should have been done in 1878, it should have been done in 1902, it should have been done in 1945, it should not have been un-done in 2005, but the world sometimes does move forward. Even for old men. And young women, and thank you for that.Finally!
Honestly, won't watch any of the football (except few highlights) but will follow the progress, hoping there's a good easy access media medium for that.
Good for the fans, girls and women who wants to play for their girlhood club United, and benefits the club in many ways.
Possibly.
Now I’m going to ease down on my support for Yeovil’s women and have a new ream to check the results from on Sundays.