| connie | Activity https://womensprosoccer.com/members/connie/activity/ Activity feed for connie. Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:42:22 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3bbeb5dd38c775d14e825b54143c1f24 connie posted a new activity comment https://womensprosoccer.com/activity/p/641/#acomment-655 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:24:51 +0000 I would suggest that a big part of the lack of interest is the lack of history and therefore drama. Professional sports is more entertainment industry than anything. The men’s game has been around for decades and with that comes a huge history of previous encounters and events that all add to the intrigue. Think England vs Argentina for example…[Read more]

In reply to - posted an update OK, troll hat half on, but what is it that makes women’s football, even at the elite level of the current WC, so bloody unwatchable? When I am zapping through my TV I usually stick with any […] ]]> f86bbbd1f2db40aa676c7bf469700983 connie posted a new activity comment https://womensprosoccer.com/activity/p/609/#acomment-631 Tue, 07 May 2019 10:11:35 +0000 Undoubtedly a fascinating and controversial topic, which science may inform but not completely solve. I can happily both support Caster and wish for a fair athletic solution, without knowing what it might be, as I sit here, on the fence (ouch!).

Ina recent report it is stated that Semenya is an “affected athlete” under IAAF regulations, whi…[Read more]

In reply to - posted an update Caster Semenya. Just wondering what people’s views are on this? My initial view is that it is (rightly) widely accepted that there should be certain categorisations in organised sport – male / […] ]]> 12f3b7aa13f569e38526f215f513f626 replied to the topic Caster Semenya - what else is a genetic advantage in sport? in the forum General Banter https://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/caster-semenya-what-else-is-a-genetic-advantage-in-sport/#post-4492 Fri, 03 May 2019 11:20:52 +0000 I might be wrong but I did read it somewhere that she mainly identifies as male but also identifies as female. Either way I do feel for her but unfortunately I’m not sure how else you protect female sport?

]]> 0 69cf2c963db4f8c308f1aa864988cba3 replied to the topic People who take sumatriptan for migraines in the forum Health https://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/people-who-take-sumatriptan-for-migraines/#post-4450 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:52:36 +0000 I used to get awful migraines and the doctor prescribed me with this drug. It worked infrequently and I didn’t rate it much at all.

In the end, I took drastic action and stopped all medication. I then took myself off the Pill. I think coming off the Pill is what finally allowed me to begin life migraine free.

]]> 0 a44ae9167a12f368cad36a1457602807 replied to the topic Women who changed the world in the forum General Banter https://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/women-who-changed-the-world/#post-4442 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:46:27 +0000 Anita Roddick. Both by showing my generation that women could build a big business from scratch and for being the first retailer to put it onto every high street that the earth mattered. She left every penny to charity when she died, as well.

]]> 0 a6d18d02ae4fedeb5b1244165f912417 replied to the topic Women who changed the world in the forum General Banter https://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/women-who-changed-the-world/#post-4441 Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:45:58 +0000 Queen Victoria?

]]> 0 2aa599fbf7f69d724d52891c364daa57 replied to the topic Smashing things up in the forum General Banter https://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/smashing-things-up/#post-4427 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 09:19:01 +0000

football brings out the absolute worst in people

More a sad indictment of the herd mentality of crowds. If people weren’t so sheep-like, en masse, then 90% of that crowd would have acted on their natural inclination and shouted those idiots down from the vehicle.

]]> 0 173caa9d9ed950cfa476173111d801aa connie posted a new activity comment https://womensprosoccer.com/activity/p/522/#acomment-525 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:52:59 +0000 This World Cup has been helped but also hindered by VAR. Now we have players screaming at the ref to review every little thing. Injuries are exaggerated even more as an attempt to get VAR to look at things and hopefully get a decision.

While there have been some things that VAR has helped with, there are many other behaviours that it seems to…[Read more]

In reply to - posted an update I always look forward to the World Cup but I’m starting to think that football has become a non-contact sport. Get near the competition and they seem to fall over without any difficulty. I […] ]]> 3f1a0f58fbf9dfb97be276cc55efb492 replied to the topic World Cup 2018 in the forum General Banter https://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/world-cup-2018/#post-4364 Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:50:19 +0000 Thing is with one of the Kane corner tussles, just before that disgraceful rugby tackle, Stones, also waiting for the corner to swing in, pushed a Tunisian in the back and he fell to the ground. So if the VAR were to give it to Kane, they’d have had to have given the Stones foul moments prior to it. So they left it all well alone. Wise.

Not sure…[Read more]

]]> 0 530fb1990c40bc6e2418eec5f5a55c03 replied to the topic Do men like independent women? in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/do-men-like-independent-women/#post-4150 Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:10:20 +0000 While I am not financially independent I am very independent in that I don’t do the little woman thing very well.
I am very straight I say what I think I was once told I communicated like a man It was Intended as a compliment i did not really feel it was.
I lived most of my life with my husband away so I am used to sorting stuff without r…[Read more]

]]> 0 87106fae0c25b20e9a6c5eb896c294e0 replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4147 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:20:02 +0000 @anne I have no opinion about Phil Neville, except that he used to be an international football player and used to play for Manchester United (?) as a midfielder or defender, that is about it.

I just read about about the controversy surrounding his appointment in the Guardian website before it cropped up here, and to me it is very clear that you…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f51eb6c9e3297b7087f6208ebfb7be5 replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4145 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:18:36 +0000 @everyone Keep on defending a complete arsehole, it does not paint you in a good light.

]]> 0 5e23e519feecbce96cd5c906f24df8db replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4142 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 10:33:20 +0000 @sophie Not malicious gossip, but proof of their unsuitability for the job in question (even worse in the case of SA) obligingly provided by the candidates themselves. Seriously, what was SA thinking?

]]> 0 2a9ada3992e2bffa1940146e1c548ae3 replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4138 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:35:17 +0000 @anne A bit difficult arguing the same thing to PMP and you, but I almost get the feeling that you are being willfully obtuse.

Can you not see the difference between making gratuitously offensive jokes and black humour as a coping mechanisms because it deals with a situation that is distressing (and yes, it was distressing to have worried looking…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a965d2165e1544c27c78899f802ccd3 replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4135 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 17:14:17 +0000 @jess I guess we have to agree to disagree. But even if I am wrong and it does not reveal underlying misogyny it reveals his stupidity and lack of judgement. IMO that should be more than enough to exclude him from a job for which the topic of his “joke” is particularly inappropriate.

I also still maintain that the very idea that such a joke…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f2fb8be355e765e18bde862f036604d replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4132 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:04:40 +0000 I make and enjoy jokes in bad taste all the time, and some jokes that circulated my old virology department back when AIDS was still a death sentence would be beyond the pale if we had told them in front of any patients or relatives.

The difference is, we did not, because we knew it would have been unacceptable.

Football player makes a shit…[Read more]

]]> 0 163b783cb7a6431dfd2d1c529bebca67 replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4128 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:57:58 +0000 Plus no it is not black humour or irony, both of which I “get” and enjoy.

It was a misogynist joke in extremely bad taste, that revealed him as a complete arse, and is quite informative about his character. Since he obviously expected that his audience/followers consisted of similar arses who would find the joke funny, it is also revealing about…[Read more]

]]> 0 e54c68a996190ade0a62db3287011742 replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4127 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:56:57 +0000 @becke No I do not, but I would expect his employer to have a word with him about his duties to corportae image, especially as a person who knows that he is exposed to media scrutiny.

However, I do think that there are certain jobs and circumstances for which, if the employer had any sense of integrity and decency (which the FA manifestly has…[Read more]

]]> 0 d53334c51a6e29d874fee715362f89f2 replied to the topic Womens head soccer coach Phil Neville posts sexist remarks in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/womens-head-soccer-coach-phil-neville-posts-sexist-remarks/#post-4123 Thu, 25 Jan 2018 15:47:59 +0000 @beckye You are trolling, I hope, because you cannot really be serious. Making jokes painting domestic violence against women in a positive light (Let’s hope he was joking and did not in fact beat his wife) mainly proves that he is a colossal arse.

That would not make him unsuitable for any job ingeneral (I guess he might fit right in as a…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6c0e3784af5f6d6cde9a25661558a99 replied to the topic Milk causing early puberty? in the forum Health http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/milk-causing-early-puberty/#post-4096 Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:06:36 +0000 When I went to that website, I saw a full-page advert for “The How Not to Die
Cookbook”… I dismissed the ad and started poking around…

It looks like a typical American “health” website. At the risk of over-generalizing, websites of this kind tend to be single-issue, agenda-pushing vehicles for somebody who wants to get rich from TV…[Read more]

]]> 0 62bab3e4ca93d08cbdc3c86a4a0dec7d replied to the topic How to treat ball of foot pain? in the forum Health http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/how-to-treat-ball-of-foot-pain/#post-4085 Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:01:02 +0000 I’ve had massive issues with metatarsalgia over the last 5-10years. The single worst thing for setting it off was stiff winter boots, with or without crampons (although with crampons resulted in excruciating pain like two of my toes were on fire!!), also climbing shoes without a stiff enough sole.

I have dropped metatarsal heads which are…[Read more]

]]> 0 7462efa47c9bfde0d1ee8d68b45266ac replied to the topic Best running shoes for soccer? in the forum General Banter http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/best-running-shoes-for-soccer/#post-4070 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:56:26 +0000 Are you wearing them before you start running in them. Maybe your feet need time to get used to them if you aren’t a trainer wearer usually. Also you could try road race trainers. I have a pair of these think they are Peter Merrell. They were about 60 from Tiso and I really like them. They are a bit more like a walking shoe than a trainer.

]]> 0 28a1c0b8ee4e8cc5b1301e47616f4292 replied to the topic How to ease shoulder pain? in the forum Health https://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/how-to-ease-shoulder-pain/#post-4049 Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:19:00 +0000 I had trouble with an impingement last year-had a steroid shot and some physio, now have regular massages and its mostly behaving. Wearing a shoulder support whilst playing soccer and sports can help a lot. I wear this one shoulder support and it has really helped me especially when playing soccer.

https://nuovahealth.co.uk/shop/shoulder-support/

]]> 0 b5d4ea1f0d47c6e51c41051244afe5d4 replied to the topic Plantar fascitiis or policeman heel in the forum Health http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/planter-fascitiis-or-policeman-heel/#post-4000 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:12:54 +0000 I suffer in my right heel too and have found correct shoes helps me a lot. The Clarke’s Unstructured have been brilliant and I live in them. Not pretty but very comfy. Their summer sandals are good too.
If I wear anything else for a day it hurts like mad. Have to be careful with boots and when running.

]]> 0 6427aeeaffe05c87b18e1c1101405e6d replied to the topic Plantar fascitiis or policeman heel in the forum Health http://womensprosoccer.com/forums/topic/planter-fascitiis-or-policeman-heel/#post-3999 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:11:21 +0000 I work in foot care product design and development
Ideally you need orthotic insoles, lots of anti inflammatory drugs and to relieve the acute pain get a really cold can of coke and stretch your arch over it regularly by rolling it backwards and forwards under your foot

If you haven’t already you need to see a podiatrist not just a GP!

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