Football

some years ago I volunteered to run the girls football team at a primary school I was working at. I did it for a year and it was one of the most heart warming experiences. Previously I had run the boys team at another primary school and although we enjoyed ourselves it was basically 15 boys all throwing hissy fits and losing control of their tempers etc whenever the slightest thing went wrong. The boys found it almost impossible to concentrate during training and approached drills as competitions to prove what they could do. The girls by contrast turned up for training and were immediately focused on listening and learning and approached drills as a time to improve and get better. During matches the girls would often praise the opposition and encouraged each other no matter how poor a pass was etc. The boys found it hard to control their emotions and felt let down by any poor play by their own team. For the girls it was sport and to be played fairly. For the boys it was life and death. Needless to say i enjoyed my time with the girls a million times more than the boys.
Watching the Olympics, the women's football, and just about every other sport it is striking how different it is to the male leagues in football. Nobody argues with the refs, nobody dives, nobody chest beats or squares up to each other in a preposterous attempt to look hard. I'm really impressed with women's football and all other sports in the Olympics. it really shows male football to be a bit pathetic.