This is a can of worms isn't it, do women feel more emotions or do they just feel emotional about different things than men do, or do they express their emotions differently to how men do. Either way, you're right, it's daft.
Society allows women to express emotions other than anger. That's mostly it, in my opinion: men are expected to be stoic and visible displays of emotion are discouraged as unmanly.
Well not sure what your theory is based upon there, as there are a lot of unbelievably good goalkeepers in the women's game.
Surely the average height and reach is different for men and women keepers, and they're playing in front of goals that are of the same size. More than the quality of the keeping it could well be the physical difference. I don't know, I'm guessing.
I'm guessing it's because chaps like him are hired by chaps like him.It'll never cease to amaze me how chaps like that get jobs like coaching the womens national team
A bit of both. Lack of reach doesn’t help but you definitely see blatantly crap goalkeeping in women’s football more obviously than in the men’s game. Although that might be because blatantly crap moments from the ‘keeper are more eye-catching.
You want some?
I think it's mainly because the goalposts are too big for the average height of keepers they have in the women's game. It makes it very hard to save certain shots when they're placed near the posts
This. I've always said it too. There is a bigger gap between the keeper's athleticism than there is in quality of shots and long range attempts for both genders so therefore it makes sense that they conceded much more
Further to your first paragraph; they can be made to scramble far easier by having them stretch and leap full-force for one save, which leaves them in a heap or completely unable to get footing to spring again for combination saves. It’s totally unfair, like cheating in a footy game by following a scripted method of scoring.
Was going to say the same. Did anyone say it was because men were so emotional when you could regularly say crazy scores at that time?
A major factor in this will be the quality of coaching (particularly at junior ages) being such a disparity, mens coaches tend to be of a significantly higher standard because, well, that’s where the money is.
That’s a good point and to be clear I don’t even think there is a national coaching guideline for junior ages, it’s just throw a kid in nets and see how he does.
I watched a woman’s game recently on TV…I can’t remember which competition it was or who were the teams playing, but my big takeaway from it was that the goalposts looked to be too big for the keepers. The attacking and midfield play was solid but a couple of the goals conceded looked like someone with a longer reach, like say a De Gea or a Donnarumma might have kept out.
He's claiming it's based on data, which has yet to be produced, but how he came to conclusion that the cause is emotional is where the difficulty lies for me. If your conclusion is backing up a stereotype, you'd want to be very sure of your data before spouting off like this.
I don’t know some games are good and I quite like Ellen White natural goal scorer man or woman, but I can understand what you mean the level and tactics aren’t as entertaining as the men’s game even if your donkey thing is a bit mean spirited.
Yes that was unnecessary and I edited it out. But I would argue that they are extremely well trained tactically but what is totally lacking is physique.
Yes there are many good goalkeepers who are women, but they should never the less have a smaller goal. Maybe the field should be smaller too, to make the game faster and more entertaining.
More than 20 000 people attended the recent United v Everton match at Old Trafford, while more than 90 000 attended El Clasico. Some of them probably had a good time.
