transfer round up

[jazzypom]

Comments

[marsyke]

Women's football needs some media attention just like other small sports. It can't be that hard. My newspaper spends 60 percent of sports news on men's football, 30 on men's cycling, 5 on tennis equally men and women (but more on women when we had kim and justine) and every other sport is in those 5 percent. So really it can't hurt to write a little article about women's football once in a while.

Gladback, HSV, Bayern and Augsburg. Bayern won it last season,  now they finished last.

The Daily Mail have taken up the mantle

[jazzypom]

I gotta say, it's a bit of a devil's bargain in that way. Because with more visibility, comes more money (yayyy!) but then more intrusion? So if you're having affairs and generally misbehaving badly, it will be across the papers, but still... money!

But The Daily Mail and the BBC are pushing it. The local BBC stations (East Midlands, Yorkshire, etc) should be covering the women's game and news just as they do our local football teams (like Leicester and Derby). Notts County is supposed to have some of the better football support, and yet, it's pretty minimal. I don't even know who plays for my local team, I just know that they're called Lady Magpies (which is a really ace name).

[marsyke]

True. But that's the price you have to pay if you want to make enough money from the sports to not have to combine it with your work or studies. My local tv and radio station is giving it more attention too and while participation in men's football is falling, more and more women are playing. So that's a good reason to give it more attention even if it comes with scrutiny.

[mundodeamor]

There is a difference between more exposure of the sport itself (league results, transfer news etc.) and of players' personal lives, though. I think you can give more visibility to the sport without exposing the players in that way. Also, intrusion depends on the players themselves - like actors, singers and other celebrities, some are known purely for their work, while others put themselves out there (granted, more exposure means more publicity, which means more money etc., so it's a two-way street).

[marsyke]

Lol. Difficult. Pirlo and Tevez are definitely the shirts I see most here in Venice. Although maybe that's more for the foreign tourists than the Italians. Plenty of Messi's walking around too as is the case everywhere, or so it seems.

[untxi]

2 years ago i did a trip to spain with my bf and for some reason we decided to create this drinking game that consisted of drinking a shot (later each night) for every messi shirt we saw in the streets. needless to say, i think we were only able to do it for like 2 or 3 days while we were in northern spain, because when we got to madrid and then barcelona the number of tourists wearing his shirt = alcoholic coma, lmao

[pullhimdown]

The plot thickens once again on Benfica's... interesting sales. The portuguese press has collective orgasms because they sold pseudo-football player Ivan Caveleiro for 15M. L'equipe disagrees.

[pullhimdown]

Oooh, and Marco Ferreira, who refereed the last Portuguese Cup is apparently quitting because people are trying to destroy portuguese refereeing.

[untxi]

can't find anything yet, maybe portugoal will publish a translation later.

in sum, he says his career as a ref is ending today, then he thanks everyone; he says he's dedicated 20 years to this profession, and that he even gave up his 'day job' in banking, and often put refereeing above his friends and family. he says he leaves to win his freedom of speech back, and because he's tired of those who try to destroy portuguese refereeing; he says that leaving was not his choice, but that he got a 'red card' for being an honest person. and then he incites other people to revolt against the 'system'.

[pullhimdown]

basically what untxi said

he was downgraded to the second league recently and he's been vaguely shittalking everyone since then (this and this, also in portuguese--in the first he congratulates people who approved raffling referees for matches rather than ref nominations, says they ended 'the system', calls people in charge incompetent, says their last toy was taken away. in the second he claims to have been put under pressure concerning one of benfica's matches by the refs' president). i'm very excited he's quitting tbh, since he made a big deal out of freedom of speech in that statement and i sincerely hope he's getting ready to drag the fuck out of everyone.

[mrscrapbag]

Did anyone read that 'open letter' Xavi wrote to Iker? He should've saved that for when Iker retires from the NT, but it's a sweet gesture nonetheless.

yep

[jazzypom]

There is an island in the Bahamas where pigs swim. Random.

RE: yep

[mrscrapbag]

that sounds fun. lol

Re: RE: yep

[jazzypom]

They swim!

It's called Pig Beach and they're supposedly feral (as in, not domesticated).