They just can’t help themselves can they.?
The Women’s World Cup is taking oxygen from the Eastern coast Round Robin codes and the media must be feeling the heat.
It really irks them to report record breaking stadiums, pressure on them to give the copy that equates to that popularity on a daily basis taking the focus away from the Murdock owned codes.
Let’s be clear here, Murdoch was never in contention for the FIFA contract to broadcast, and it hates it. It takes every single opportunity to get mileage from the event, not by applauding the women, but by finding the negative or even creating the negative to get click bait to their sites.
It must be really hard for their journalists to see players not being charged with alcohol or drug related charges or DV or racial hatred on a daily basis, seeing how true professionals behave on and off the park in comparison.
This behaviour by the media is not new, the true international codes are kept away from the mainstream as Fox and Murdock want all Australians thinking AFL and NRL have a monopoly on support, but that furphy crashed when Optus first won the World Cup and its entire network crashed 7 minutes into the opening ceremony and SBS had to take the feed for the entire tournament.
No, the media went quiet, real quiet and I’ll be quite frank, when I was alive in the game we were told at a exclusive function the media were instructed not to what they said was “Wake the Giant” as the fate of the two other codes would not be competitive if a world code was allowed to take hold of the Australian landscape particularly with the amount of migrants in our population. Fact.
I can hear the scoffs and the cries of disbelief but facts are indisputable, Football in Australia is 8th in participation rates, AFL runs in at 16th and NRL is a sorry 35th. And who gets the bulk coverage, those codes
https://www.statista.com/statistics/879755/australia-sports-participants-by-type/
Now I will never poo any of those fans who follow the codes and their passion BUT do not compare, as their is no comparison.
In closing just think why the Australian media will not refer to Soccer as its true world wide name Football?
It’s strategic, not to let the “Brand” get into our culture but as you can see that Brand is here loud and clear be it men or women where the world game sets the standards on acceptance of race and religion, sexual discrimination and is not controlled by media magnates.
Enjoy and go the Matilda’s and Germany. And NZ .. see I can have alliances and still keep a open mind..it a The World Game.
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