Losing a football game by a heavy score is hard to live with, but not enough for the coach of the Northern Ireland women’s team, Kenny Shiels. As a bonus, he therefore felt obliged to leave his dignity there by justifying the 5-0 defeat of his players against England, in qualifying for the 2023 World Cup, with a very inelegant excuse and, let’s be clear, sexist.
“Girls and women are more emotional than men. So they take a goal and then demobilize, ”he said, in an obvious allusion to the goals conceded in the 52nd and 60th minutes.
Gender analysis extended to all women’s football
Shiels found it useful to back up her point by extending it to all of women’s football, because even if it means sinking into the quicksand of stupidity, after all, why not go all out. “In women’s football you will have noticed, if you follow the patterns, that when a team concedes a goal, they concede a second in a very short period of time. It’s a problem we have – not just Northern Ireland – but all countries have this problem. »
In short, the Northern Irish coach has probably never heard of the men’s teams of Paris Saint-Germain, Brazil or so many others before them.