Manchester United legends probably shouldn’t support lingerie soccer
December 24, 2015 by admin
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Several former Manchester United stars are being pressured to cancel a Lingerie Football League UK launch event at their hotel, according to ESPNFC.
The report says that current Valencia manager Gary Neville, brother and Valencia assistant Phil Neville, United assistant Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt are hearing it from Chelsea Ladies founder Tony Farmer, who launched a petition saying that they are “on the verge of setting women’s [soccer] in the UK back at least 25 years.”
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The league features 14 teams of ladies playing in sports bras, and the opening match is on Wednesday, with Farmer asking that it be canceled. Farmer started Chelsea Ladies Football Club, and it’s normal soccer, not lingerie.
“This will expose women and girl [soccer player] who have worked so hard to have the right to play football to all the sexism and prejudices endured by their predecessors,” Farmer wrote, according to the report.
“Lingerie Football is all about making the game sexual titillation for spectators and could expose players, especially young girls starting off in [soccer], to people who view them as a sexual object rather than sportswomen.”
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