What happens when the "fairer sex" plays the "Beautiful Game?"
I know this is a week old but I've been waiting for the ESPN coverage to come online as the comments by the male summariser at the first sign of trouble are priceless. Some of the online comments about Elizabeth Lambert have also been priceless ranging from the "I love strong women, I want to marry her," to the frankly scary "she should be raped and then shot for that."
The hair pulling incident is actually potentially the most serious incident and it might make you think again the next time you see two women scrapping in Tesco's and can't resist the urge to stand there shouting, "Catfight, Catfight!"
As a postscript to the video going global (as they say), courtesy of the Early Bird team at Eurosport, Elizabeth Lambert has been banned by her college from playing football indefinitely. Rumours of her trialling for the ju-jitsu team remain unconfirmed.
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By complete coincidence saw this video elsewhwere this morning! I had read about it before (my neice being "on the move" in women's soccer) but hadn't seen the video until today. The push is nothing and a reaction to an elblow (albeit a not intentionally nasty elbow, more of a nudge) but the hair pulling is quite dramatic although it must be said that the fallen victim has learnt the lessons well: to hold her face, (clearly learning from male counterparts)
When I were a lad.....calling a woman a "dirty bitch" only meant one thing and it had nothing to do with football!
How times change!
Seriously, though, I'm glad she got banned: she makes Dark Satanic Danny Mills look like Bobby Charlton.
Danny Mills now works for the BBC, mind you so did Stan Collymore. I remember Mills getting sent off at St.James Park for a tackle that was so stupid I actually laughed rather than shouted at the TV.
I remember that tackle, although I can't remember who it was on. Was it Craig Bellamy?
Stan Collymore on the BBC? I don't think we'll be seeing him on "Shooting Stars"... I'll get my coat.
It was either Bellamy or Big Al.
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