women know more than men about soccer?
By zipzipzop
@zipzipzop (419)
China
May 7, 2007 8:39pm CST
If you don't understand soccer's offside, don't ask a man-find a woman. British women are top of the table when it comes to knowledge about the game, relegating their menfolk to second spot, according to a survey of 2,000 customers of sports bar walkabout. research found that 59 percent of women could correctly identify the offside lawone of the game's hardest to comprehend-as opposed to just 55 percent of men. Also 65 percent of women correctly used the title assistant referee, while 40 percent of men wrongly referred to the official as a "linesman." "I've never understood the big fuss surrounding whether girls know what they're talking about when it comes to football because it was a kid," said Sky Sports presenter Helen Chamberian. However, when it came to team strip, the men were way ahead. More than 80percent of men could correctly identify the kits of 20 Premiership teams compared to just 33 percent of women, the survey found.
1 response
@paperchaser (503)
• Canada
8 May 07
I deffinatley disagree with the statement that women know more about soccer than men, atleast in this part of the world where I live, Canada. The reason I beleive that women are not as knowledgeable about the game here is because not a lot of women are ethusiastic about the game, and also men dominate sports in canada as apose to the women. A good example of why I think british women are more educated then men in soccer is because the spend a lot of time watching the game with their husbands, and women tend to consider the rules and think more on the lines of how to games rules affect the outcome of the game, while men tend not to veiw a soccer match at such an angle only to see the bigger picture, which is the thrill of watching the sport.
