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  1. oakey

    Womens football

    If you are still following this story it looks like the FA are being disingenuous, unsurprisingly. This figure of fewer than 30 males in FA registered female matches will not stand up to scrutiny. I play for an FA registered walking football club. If you join one you will be asked, "What gender...
  2. oakey

    Womens football

    This is a poor excuse. I suspect the FA will use it anyway. The FA has ignored legal arguments which have told them they have been failing to use the existing law to protect the women's game for at least a decade. They didn't listen. Draw your own conclusions.
  3. oakey

    Womens football

    I don't think apologies are performative. I suspect the FA has received legal advice that lawsuits could be on the way, which is why they have swiftly reversed a policy issued only a few weeks ago. For my part I would be considering taking legal advice on grounds for compensation, if I had been...
  4. oakey

    Womens football

    The scale of coverage is about righting a wrong, which should always be big and welcome news. Of course, an interesting question is why it took so long and why we are seeing no apologies to women and girls who have been discriminated against all this time. Perhaps a few lawsuits will focus minds.
  5. oakey

    Womens football

    I have personally received a broken wrist from a ball hit very hard by a male player when I played mixed walking football for seniors. I have personally witnessed at least four broken bones sustained by women caused by male players. Now, clearly, these women should consider no longer playing...
  6. oakey

    Womens football

    I disagree. Each one affects dozens of opponents and team mates. Many hundreds of women have been affected, some injured, some displaced and many self-excluding.
  7. oakey

    Womens football

    FA bars transgender women from women's football - FA says transgender women cannot compete in women's football from 1 June
  8. oakey

    Womens football

    Scottish FA will protect the women's game, at last. FA of England must follow suit asap
  9. oakey

    Womens football

    https://archive.is/2025.04.29-110936/https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/25123408.scottish-fa-ban-transgender-players-girls-womens-football/
  10. oakey

    Championship thread 24/25!

    Nice but 3-0 was enough for us as the only way we can finish level with them is if we draw and they lose ... Which would take their GD level with ours but we have scored more goals.
  11. oakey

    Video Luton Town v Coventry City Highlights

    That red card on DaSilva is an outrage.
  12. oakey

    Womens football

    It is on my BBC app. First article in 'Cricket'.
  13. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    And what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Men and boys are entitled to spaces away from women and girls, in places where their bodily dignity is their right. E.g. Toilets, changing rooms, medical facilities etc
  14. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-lay-new-law-to-halt-the-march-of-gender-neutral-toilets-in-buildings The opposite is the likely direction of travel. All new facilities which serve the public are required to provide single sex toilets etc. This is statutory. The current...
  15. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    It is certainly a victory for sex based rights. Single sex spaces are lawful and nobody can identify into the provision for the opposite sex. Whether they have a GRC or not has been ruled irrelevant as the judgment today specifically says that where sex rights are concerned, e.g the right to...
  16. oakey

    FA allows sex discrimination

    Now waiting for the FA and other sporting authorities to catch up with what the law actually says, and protect the sex based rights of women. Maybe they will have to be dragged through the courts before that happens but it must.
  17. oakey

    Player Ratings v Hull

    Has anybody pointed out that Sheaf should have stopped the player who made the cross field pass from which they scored? He was beaten twice in his attempts to stop the player.
  18. oakey

    Womens football

    Why are Scottish premier higher than the Championship? Why is Champions league higher than the Championship even when no British teams are involved and there's loads of domestic football? So many questions
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