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Sex appeal

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by The Fighting Cock
Every match day I go through the ups and downs with the team. I celebrate goals like a mad person and I rue the goals scored against us. I sing with the supporters from my living room. I watched Bayern München crush our last hopes of Champions League football. I drank myself into a stupor […]

Every match day I go through the ups and downs with the team. I celebrate goals like a mad person and I rue the goals scored against us. I sing with the supporters from my living room. I watched Bayern München crush our last hopes of Champions League football. I drank myself into a stupor just like everybody else that night. I paid a subscription to Charlton Athletic to listen to a feed of the Spurs youth game that TFC attended and sang along in my office here in California. How much more do I have to do to prove that I love the shirt, love the club, know the rules, and love the players for the right reasons?

I know that women are easy targets in this male-dominated world of football, and I’d rather not go into the politics or the greater issue (sorry, Sian Massey), but what I’d like to say is that it isn’t fair that while men get free reign on what they say about players, I’ve got to qualify my own statements.

[linequote]How much more do I have to do to prove that I love the shirt, love the club, know the rules, and love the players for the right reasons?[/linequote]

My favorite Mexican player is Giovani Dos Santos, whom I had the distinct pleasure of watching play in a Spurs shirt for brief spells in the last few years. I don’t love him because I’m attracted to him, I love him for the amazing performances for my national team; for that brilliant goal against the US in the last Gold Cup final, and for coming off the bench at the Olympics and proving that he was worthy of being there when everyone around me seemed disappointed that Mexico’s golden boy, Chicharito, wasn’t going. I love him for being the playmaker when it mattered most to our country. And in all the love I feel for him there is nothing to do with what he looks like because what the hell does that have to do with football?

I understand that there are women who don’t know much about football and maybe do watch for the wrong reasons, but I’d rather not be punished for something that has nothing to do with me. I don’t want to play the victim, I just want to watch football without having to qualify my reasons. I know the offside rule, and more often than not I call it better than the linesmen on tv or my father (a man!). And you know who taught me the rule?

My sister.

[author name=”Maria” avatar=”https://www.thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?avatar=642_1342584499.jpg” twitter=”mariaruelasmx” tag=”Maria[/linequote]

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11 Comments

  1. Alan Costa Blanca
    17/09/2012 @ 5:50 pm

    Talking of Sex Appeal,Watch “Fernando Llorente” C/F of Ath.Bilbao,this man has Talent
    for 4yrs I`v told Spurs to buy him,now available in January,Girls will love him,big Strong
    has premier league attributes & Good looker,Femail Fans will love him,so will Male Fans
    for his Football Abilities–Ask “Fergie”dumped Utd.out of Champions league !!

  2. Aicher
    17/09/2012 @ 6:42 pm

    What on earth is going on. You find time writing this article and im not against your sentiments but surly you’re time would have been better spent doing the cooking and the washing up

    • StoopYid
      17/09/2012 @ 11:23 pm

      Grow up.

      • Dan Mac
        18/09/2012 @ 7:25 am

        sense of humour?

  3. blobby
    17/09/2012 @ 6:59 pm

    love the passion Maria .. COYS !

  4. gavin c
    17/09/2012 @ 7:10 pm

    #respect where its due…………….fellow Tottenhamite man/woman/child/heshe/shehe/whatever…….COYS

  5. ColinSC
    17/09/2012 @ 9:36 pm

    I agree with Gavin … well said..

  6. J
    18/09/2012 @ 7:10 am

    The lady doth protest too much… You can admit to having a thing for Gio and still retain your credibility as a football supporter.
    As a heterosexual man, watching womens football at the Olympics was enjoyable in a sporting sense, and aesthetically pleasant too.
    Watching Hope Solo play is sexistential perfection.

  7. Dan Mac
    18/09/2012 @ 7:24 am

    although I agree with the sentiment, it turns out that your avatar/picture is a pair of tits…. if you don’t want to be judged for being a woman then maybe selling yourself on your tits (may not be yours and I’m not saying they don’t look great) isn’t the best way to do it.

    • Maria
      18/09/2012 @ 3:04 pm

      So I should dress like a man so that my opinions are valid? Great. Thanks for getting it.

  8. In the name of Hod
    03/10/2012 @ 7:11 pm

    love the article, in love with the photo. coys

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