I was going to post one on women's football too, the only problem I have with it is that it's just more focus on the big/greedy six clubs. As the top women's clubs are largely the same as the men.
I can accept Man City getting 10x more coverage than Argyle, but I find it slightly hard to take if their women's team also now get more coverage and League One is ranked below WSL in the pecking order... despite a fraction of the attendances/quality/interest etc etc.
To be fair, it's likely that the BBC is pushing it more purely because it has the rights, and it doesn't currently for the Football League.
i can sort of see the rationale for this though because there’s fairly obvious growth potential for women’s football and arguably a moral obligation to boost it given the way it was suppressed in the past.
Conversely, there’s no need or justification for promoting lower league men’s football. It’s been well established for decades and while many people watch it, they’re not really interested beyond their own team.
Personally (and this may be another unpopular opinion) I’ve couldn’t care less about any lower league game that doesn’t affect Argyle. I think I’ve literally never watched one on TV and haven’t been to a live one for years. I’d struggle to name more than a dozen or so football league players excluding ones with connections to Argyle and am only dimly aware of what clubs are in the championship or league 2.
I’m not into women’s football either but if Argyle had a women’s team that made it onto TV i might take a passing interest. If this is true of Man U or Arsenal or Chelsea fans it probably equates to a higher level of engagement than something like Mansfield v Middlesbrough in the men’s game where the small number of people that give a flying one about the teams involved will mostly be at the stadium.