World Cup 2006 misogyny

Here we go again. Weeks of football mania. They are welcome to their football and I wouldn't even moan about it if sport wasn't such a misogynistic thing in our society. But with one or two exceptions, all we ever see is sport played by men and commentated on by men. Where do women squeeze in? Even sports they could share, such as darts, cricket, snooker, and others, they are excluded from or kept segregated with almost no coverage on TV. So we are now going to hear a group of barely articulate men spouting cliches and platitudes about another group of men running around a field kicking a ball. Tennis is an exception, to an extent, but at Wimbledon women are treated as second-class citizens: their games are shorter, they are referred to by their marital status, their prize money is less than the men's, and they have to wear skirts, whatever their inclination. All this is pure misogyny and discrimination backed up by TV and huge commerical interests. I find it totally dispiriting. (picture of English team arriving in Germany)