Reply To: Community Chat – A Place for Weary Flingers

Just like old times me talking to myself.I’ll pick a topic.How about Joey Barton?Women’s football?Joey Barton on women’s football?

He does actually have a point about equal pay and I say this purely on economic grounds not as misogynistic dino poo.There is no doubt that the women’s game is gaining in popularity all the time and the revenue it brings in is also increasing year on year especially when England do well but consider just one financial part of the game that highlights the gap that exists between the men and the women.

Sky and TNT have a 5 year deal to broadcast EPL costing £6.7 billion.

Sky and BBC have a 5 year deal for the women’s equivalent costing £65 million.

That gap is replicated in sponsorship and advertising deals so when the ladies bring home that kind of bacon they should be paid on a par.