Watching the WSL with a parent, JohnnyTheNic heard all his fears about his kids copying the men instead of the women.
On a weekend when women’s football dominated the TV, John Nicholson spoke to a father about copy-vcat behaviour.
“The one thing no-one tells you about kids and football is that they copy absolutely everything they see either on TV or at a game. I mean everything down to the last detail. They miss nothing. “I can see it happening and it worries me. He copies all the pushing and shoving, squaring up to each other, doing that hold-me-back fighting-not-fighting thing and then there’s the endless bloody moaning about every decision. It’s all performative. He’s trying to be the hard man, going in hard and pushing kids around and he gets praise for it from his teacher. He’s like a mini Bruno Fernandes and throws a strop about everything that goes against his team.
“She’s totally absorbed into women’s football culture at a really impressionable age and with that comes this…I suppose it’s a feminist culture of empowerment and awareness, isn’t it? In some ways she’s much older than 13, if you know what I mean. It is literally possible to see her becoming this more aware, almost political person through her football culture. Like, she’s properly outraged that only 63% of girls have access to playing football at school.
“And another thing, right, at girl’s football – and I go to all her games – there’s no competitive dad in a bloody tracksuit on the touchline telling their girl to get in the opposition’s faces or calling the referee a c*nt, but at boys games there usually is at least one or two nutjobs, always having a go. Go to WSL games and there’s no anger or someone going insane at the officials. I’ve seen fathers fighting at boys games in front of 10 or 11 year-olds.
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