The Women’s Super League has signed a broadcast deal with the BBC and Sky earlier this year – the largest agreement in women’s football to date.
Anita Asante, who plays for Aston Villa, says the deal is a ‘huge opportunity to grow the sport’.
But she fears the increased exposure and boost to the profile of players may result in more online abuse, particularly towards non-white players.
Asante, who has experienced racist abuse from hostile crowds and on social media, says she worries whether players who haven’t been exposed to it before can ‘manage’ the potential abuse.
A report by the Professional Footballers Association has found that there has been a 48% increase in un-moderated racist online abuse in the second half of the 2020/21 football season.
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I don't see the attraction of Twitter. It's use has caused so many problems, and got people sacked.
Anyone know the music used in the video?
Played for 20 years in Ice Hockey premierships. Back in the day when it was not so welcomed. We had constant abuse from male counterparts as well as assumptions we were all gay ( many of us were not, but even if that was the case…??!!!) so, this is nothing new. We never got « training » about prejudice or teams of people protecting us from it. We got beaten up outside the rink, our stuff got stolen from the lockeroom, and our ice time shorten by the never leaving male teams using it before us….It carried on for years….But we raised above it. We carried on with our heads high. It eventually stopped bit by bit. The more you talk about it, the more you are going to provoke people. Just decide what you want to do with your life and do not let haters control your choice. Move on!!!!!
Which game do you want to put your energy into?!
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Why do the bbc want it too?
There is abuse for everyone online not just only racial abuse
Thank hod no one watches it then
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What's the average stadium attendance for "The women's Game" anyway? Seems like someone just wasted 26m to me. Not that I care for that game at all. I don't watch, or pay to watch, men kick a ball either.
Why are you trying set the narrative? There is no relation between a new Broadcasting deal and morons abusing people based on the pigmentation of their skin
“There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically.”
Nobody will watch it, not because 'men hate women' but because the standard of womens football is atrocious.
Women’s football is crap anyway everyone knows it
As a white man people call me White supremacist and that I have white privilege and that I should have white guilt and as a white man I should shut up I’m not allowed to have a culture
Whenever people talk about diversity they mean less white people
All satanist and luciferian repent NOW AND LEAVE GODS children alone. Stop bowing down to false Gods and Satan and turn to God or be cast into the pit with him. I BIND ALL SATANIST AND EVIL LUCIFERIAN AND SATAN IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!!!!! THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!! TURN TO GOD NOW!!! THE RAPTURE IS NEAR!!!!
Booooo, down with cultural Marxist propaganda.
Keep that victim narrative grave train chugging.
who gives a fuck if anyone is racist. I hate tall people. nobody gives a fuck
what the fuck is this
Will the police ever tackle online p e d o s? I mean if you type a dodgy tweet they’re all over you, address n all, yet this group hardly gets a mention……..wonder who the REALLY are?
The BBC; not about British programming, but about programming the British.
The BBC's is nothing but fear, division and hate
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Not news
Theres nobody in the bloody stands what she chatting about hostile crowds?
Stop sponsoring BLM then
Dear bbc, you are suppose to bring me news that actually happened, not ask me a question about what might happen in the future. I don't bloody know, get your own crystal ball.
Because of the economic crisis and the rate of unemployment, now is the best time to invest and make money ?
Either, don't open the Socials for comments, or have full time pre- moderation and blocking of abusers.
bbc selling lot of footballs
How to end racism? Take two knees! I'm sure that would definitely work. And if not then two knees and an elbow. That's absolutely guaranteed
Is she trans women!? ?
Women's football is a handicapped sport. The handicap is "having a female physique". If there is any abuse to be expected, it will rather be in that department. People don't like cheaters.
Broadcasting British Colonialism (BBC) has completed its metamorphosis into a Jihadi channel supporting the likes of Taliban and Pakistan (Osama land)and shutting down people criticizing their terrorism…
0:00 "Contains language that may offend" erm… the only people that are doing that at the moment is the tory party.
Rather than lecture potential audiences with propaganda, why doesn't the BBC use this video to promote their new investment?
Non-whites are taking the spots of whites and people wonder why there's "racial online abuse"
what a bunch of race hustling whiners. They are getting more exposure and still complaining.
It's all staged.
Breakfast time, decisions, decisions.
No one wants to watch this shower of shit, it's bad enough their in the football pull out on a Monday morning, it's only good for wiping me ass.
Yes.
https://youtu.be/p-xqtUv4ZG4
Reading the comments, why should women footballers be ridiculed for calling out racial abuse or talking about their fears of abuse?
Not likely, since no one cares.
They can act like adults and deal with it!!
Bbc not everyone is a dam victim
"2021 and we're still here talking abour racism."
Yeah, because you never shut up about it.
@rachel malone many of the hollywood AFRICAN AMERICAN celebrities dont look black they look light skin & mixed race.ebony magazine says they use this lotion fer.la/traslucent which makes them look far more light skin & mixed race and not black anymore. Im not surprised lots of people change the way they look these days.
BBC really wants the online censorship bill… ?