Should women be banned from men's football?

[Mizki]

If i'm right, the law is now that girls can't play in boys football clubs over the age of 10.

& Mentor the debate for has silly passwords, i'm not going to wait for a pass to post.

[Zephur]

Ok I'm back.

The only reason I can think of them not being in the mens leadues. Is that some of the men might not tackle as hard, and generally not treat them like they would a man. This could bring scores into jeopardy.
However, thats a pathetic excuse.

Like some great footballer or other said: 'If your good enough your old enough'
so like some great Habbo called Zephur now says: 'If your good enough, theres not reason why not'

[the wombats]

hhhhhmmmmm over ten, that means the goverment is biased

[Mizki]

As a female junior coach who has two girls in my team I think that girls are on a par with men/boys. I will lose two very good players next season as the girls are not allowed to play as part of a mixed team when they are 11 years old. Pathetic or what?

[the wombats]

very pathetic, take it to the town hall mwahahahaha or parliment

[Zephur]

Steph, I don't think they should have seperate changing rooms.
If they can share the same pitch they can share the same changing room.

If the want to be treated equally why discrimate them by putting them in a seperate changing room?

[Mizki]

I disagree with that, Football is a GAME, a sport... Having the same changing rooms is personal....

I'm sure the men would like it, but I know for a fact most woman wouldnt.

Anyway this is what the the football association had to say:

Currently girls and boys can play football together up until the age of 11. After this they have to play in single gender teams only. The website run by the Football Association says the "physical differences between the average secondary school boy and girl mean that the way they play the game begins to change too. Boys' football involves more long passing and crossing, while girls' football tends to feature more dribbling and short passing" (www.thefa.com).

Are they saying girls cannot cross the ball or do long passes? Football is football, not two different games. So say they are right... the girls game is more about dribbling and short passes - a team needs a mixture of skills.

I know some woman footballers who can cross the ball as good as Beckham.

[the wombats]

i am not a football fan, but why have 2 seperate gender teams, cant they play like one big happy family?

[Zephur]

Mizki they can have pre-match warm up sessions...

[Mizki]

What do you mean? do you mean they can join in with the men while they are warming up? oh boy gee wizz ! heaven is a place on earth!

But maybe you didn't mean that