More women in the Sports farternity



By Zeeshan Tariq On October 10, 2011



It’s good that we starting to see more women in the sports fraternity, usually men love their sports and never want to sacrifice their time for their wives or girlfriends. Now how about we watch it together? How about we include them in the game and teach them what sports is all about. Sports is not just men and women running around chasing after one ball, sports is a group of people men/female working together to a common goal, it might be scoring, putting, tackling or hitting tennis balls or even swimming. Gender discrimination is not needed any more! Women can do whatever they put they mind too.  I’m not a feminist but, is it why men discriminate against women, because they have little interest in sport? I blog mostly about sport and to my surprise no girl whose following me on my blogs is commenting and when I get to ask them the first answer is that sport is boring but little they know that some women are prohibited completely from playing because of who they are.



Saudi Arabia is deciding not to put women in their Olympics team because they have never allowed it in the kingdom. “A Saudi Arabian newspaper says the ultraconservative kingdom will not send women to the London Olympics”Yahoo news. Saudi Arabian newspaper (Al-Watan) quoted Prince Nawaf, the head of the Saudi Olympic Committee, saying the "kingdom opposes sending female athletes to the Olympics for the first time". This is not a matter of little interest in sports, women our not included because it's never been practiced in the kingdom. It's sad to find out that women are prohibited from competing, playing, and having fun on one of the highest platforms in the world.

Keys and Gray were talking off-air in the build-up to Wolves v Liverpool

The other big case is the Andy Gray matter, whereby he passed silly remarks about a female official knowing the offside rule. According to the bbcnews the two commentators believed that they microphones were off,  Keys and Gray agreed that Sian Massey and other female assistant refrees "did not know the offside rule bbc news." The two commentators initialy said this before Wolves vs Liverpool during the build up. Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports, said: "Their comments were totally unacceptable bbc news."  The comments from Gray and Keys have been widely criticised in football circles. The two commentators offended the sports community and also got repremunded regardless of their seniority. Skysports handled the matter very proffesionaly and didn't condone such behaviour from their employees.

Massey the victim from all this got to defend herself and she stated that the "remarks showed a lack of respect for her." She went on to say, "I just think it's unfair. Here is somebody doing a very important job under very difficult circumstances, who deserves and warrants our respect and here are two people who other people listen to and get their views from not giving her a chance," she said bbc news.

I personally hope that these incidents wont push women away from sport but instead we will all share a common ground were we can participate and learn greatly from one another.