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Showing posts with label FIFA Women's World Cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FIFA Women's World Cup. Show all posts

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Heather du Plessis-Allan: You can't force people into diversity

Yesterday, as Matt Heath was leaving this studio after The Huddle, I asked him if he was going to any FIFA Women’s World Cup games.

He turned around and laughed and made an observation along the lines of- you can force people to do a lot of diversity stuff, but you can’t force them to buy tickets to entertainment.

Isn’t that exactly right.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Mike Hosking: We get upset way too much now


One of the unfortunate side stories of the FIFA Women's World Cup is it doesn’t look to be the bonanza they hoped it might be.

Ticket sales have been an issue and the hoteliers claim to be bitterly disappointed.

It might well be that football as a sport is big globally, but not here. And even if it is big, at the women's level it's not a massive spectator event.