Victoria Pendleton

I have to disagree there, skill is skill. Men's football doesn't discriminate against women, that is to say, there is no rule that says a woman can't play in the mens game it's just that it's not often they find a woman strong enough to compete.

It does happen though, an italian team signed a woman a while ago (february??) and perugia in 2003 (see below). Some dickheads slated it as a gimmick but she was good enough to play and they let her.

http://www.newstatesman.com/200311100009

I think they have a few women golfers to in the mens tournaments and do very well.

I wonder why.

"Over the past 18 months he has been responsible for signing Saadi Gaddafi, son of the sometime philosopher and full-time Libyan dictator, Colonel Gaddafi; sacking a South Korean player for having the temerity to score against the Italian national team; and hiring the disgraced drug-cheat Ben Johnson to teach his players how to sprint"