Equality

Equality My first memory of women’s football is Brandy Chastain Taking her sports shirt off after she scored on the pitch Don’t know if she got a yellow card but had to google her name The brazier underneath had no logo for advertising the make But surely the sexual quality of the display advanced the game As fine boobs pumped up by action asked for a second look Twenty years after that iconic moment sexism is still rife Equality a dream of the future and yet aspirations grow The US team is favourite to win the world cup once more Germany has a fine set of players and have not conceded so far Eight times European champions twice top at the World Cup The player’s names a ‘don’t know’ on the streets of the country Bursting with confidence they are their own role models ‘We do not need balls because we have long pony tails’ ‘Pferdeschwaenze’ in German with more meaning than one For their first win at an international competition they got a tea set At least it was not a free set of sex toys or a packet of condoms They refuse to remain in kitchen and bed and ‘boy can they play’ My own daughter plays Rugby for Wales she is no Ian Rush Not Ryan Giggs or Gareth Bale and holds a ‘regular’ job To satisfy her passion and travels the world for an oval sphere The earth was once flat and times are slowly changing And yet her best chance of making money as a player Is sports commercials with her raving dark chestnut hair Post-scriptum: The German goalies’ name is Almuth Schult Her shirt is not clean but so far she kept a clean sheet FIFA comprises more countries than the United Nations Whoever wins it’s a beautiful game not only for men In a male world but for me the women raise the roof just the same 26th June 2019 Sponsor Mark Toney Contest: FIFA women’s World Cup