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Will online abuse increase after English women’s football’s record deal? – BBC News

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The Women’s Super League has signed a broadcast deal with the BBC and Sky earlier this year – the largest agreement in women’s football to date.

Anita Asante, who plays for Aston Villa, says the deal is a ‘huge opportunity to grow the sport’.

But she fears the increased exposure and boost to the profile of players may result in more online abuse, particularly towards non-white players.

Asante, who has experienced racist abuse from hostile crowds and on social media, says she worries whether players who haven’t been exposed to it before can ‘manage’ the potential abuse.

A report by the Professional Footballers Association has found that there has been a 48% increase in un-moderated racist online abuse in the second half of the 2020/21 football season.

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  1. @meonly6471

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    They don't play football they run around making a mockery of the great game

  2. @kreigrastalovich2577

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Absolute self made victim. Just look how little people are in the crowd. Well worth the license fee.

  3. @wolfenstein722

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Football is not news, football does not make the world go round…..!

  4. @irw4350

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    the black population of the UK is around 3.5% – yet every night on BBC news just about every face I see is black – reporters, newsreaders – in schools, police, on the street, on the tube – there's barely a white face anywhere – dont believe me ? well just watch with an open mind. Am I racist? I am married to a coloured girl for more than 20 yrs now. Its the BBC that is racist.

  5. @irw4350

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    what is the point of women's football? men are not interested – women are not interested – yet we have no choice but to contribute via the BBC licence fee for the ultra-WOKE PC BBC coverage of a sport that almost nobody watches – more people watch curling. The BBC is the vanguard of an illiberal woke hard left agenda – everyone else can see it so why does the BBC still maintain that its impartial ? =- Silly me ! The licence fee of course. Duh !

  6. @tectorama

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    I don't see the attraction of Twitter. It's use has caused so many problems, and got people sacked.

  7. @0IIIIII

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Anyone know the music used in the video?

  8. @garancewatford1970

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Played for 20 years in Ice Hockey premierships. Back in the day when it was not so welcomed. We had constant abuse from male counterparts as well as assumptions we were all gay ( many of us were not, but even if that was the case…??!!!) so, this is nothing new. We never got « training » about prejudice or teams of people protecting us from it. We got beaten up outside the rink, our stuff got stolen from the lockeroom, and our ice time shorten by the never leaving male teams using it before us….It carried on for years….But we raised above it. We carried on with our heads high. It eventually stopped bit by bit. The more you talk about it, the more you are going to provoke people. Just decide what you want to do with your life and do not let haters control your choice. Move on!!!!!

  9. @bdale5231

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Which game do you want to put your energy into?!

  10. @masafumia491

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    azabuhasunotaiwanngurunarakannkokusinndemoiikakiitaradaijyoubutte

  11. @Roland_Tr909_Swing

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Why do the bbc want it too?

  12. @jpyoung9259

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    There is abuse for everyone online not just only racial abuse

  13. @jpyoung9259

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Thank hod no one watches it then

  14. @richardoshea7133

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    What's the average stadium attendance for "The women's Game" anyway? Seems like someone just wasted 26m to me. Not that I care for that game at all. I don't watch, or pay to watch, men kick a ball either.

  15. @elcortez5434

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Why are you trying set the narrative? There is no relation between a new Broadcasting deal and morons abusing people based on the pigmentation of their skin

  16. @BalkanMode

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    “There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically.”

  17. @j.e.wattes8991

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Nobody will watch it, not because 'men hate women' but because the standard of womens football is atrocious.

  18. @sambishop9567

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Women’s football is crap anyway everyone knows it

  19. @sambishop9567

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    As a white man people call me White supremacist and that I have white privilege and that I should have white guilt and as a white man I should shut up I’m not allowed to have a culture
    Whenever people talk about diversity they mean less white people

  20. @KeturahKeith

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    All satanist and luciferian repent NOW AND LEAVE GODS children alone. Stop bowing down to false Gods and Satan and turn to God or be cast into the pit with him. I BIND ALL SATANIST AND EVIL LUCIFERIAN AND SATAN IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!!!!! THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!! TURN TO GOD NOW!!! THE RAPTURE IS NEAR!!!!

  21. @wolfiestreet6899

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Booooo, down with cultural Marxist propaganda.

  22. @connorduff9278

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Keep that victim narrative grave train chugging.

  23. @davidmiska

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    who gives a fuck if anyone is racist. I hate tall people. nobody gives a fuck

  24. @davidmiska

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    what the fuck is this

  25. @coolcat6103

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Will the police ever tackle online p e d o s? I mean if you type a dodgy tweet they’re all over you, address n all, yet this group hardly gets a mention……..wonder who the REALLY are?

  26. @nidgemorphie4316

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    The BBC's is nothing but fear, division and hate

  27. @masafumia491

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    またペルーみせのまえ

  28. @samsonsoturian6013

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Not news

  29. @chilipalmer8809

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Stop sponsoring BLM then

  30. @FoodwaysDistribution

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Dear bbc, you are suppose to bring me news that actually happened, not ask me a question about what might happen in the future. I don't bloody know, get your own crystal ball.

  31. @nicholasalexander9907

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Because of the economic crisis and the rate of unemployment, now is the best time to invest and make money 💯

  32. @banksiasong

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Either, don't open the Socials for comments, or have full time pre- moderation and blocking of abusers.

  33. @auro1986

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    bbc selling lot of footballs

  34. @j7ech402

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    How to end racism? Take two knees! I'm sure that would definitely work. And if not then two knees and an elbow. That's absolutely guaranteed

  35. @Marco_Polo790

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Is she trans women!? 😉

  36. @GrumpyOldMan9

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Women's football is a handicapped sport. The handicap is "having a female physique". If there is any abuse to be expected, it will rather be in that department. People don't like cheaters.

  37. @sweetchinmusic801

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Broadcasting British Colonialism (BBC) has completed its metamorphosis into a Jihadi channel supporting the likes of Taliban and Pakistan (Osama land)and shutting down people criticizing their terrorism…

  38. @richard7645

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    0:00 "Contains language that may offend" erm… the only people that are doing that at the moment is the tory party.

  39. @tmgriffiths20

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Rather than lecture potential audiences with propaganda, why doesn't the BBC use this video to promote their new investment?

  40. @saltymcsaltface

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Non-whites are taking the spots of whites and people wonder why there's "racial online abuse"

  41. @mwesb1994

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    what a bunch of race hustling whiners. They are getting more exposure and still complaining.

  42. @welshlady212000

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Breakfast time, decisions, decisions.

  43. @tobehonest7541

    January 26, 2024 at 10:19 am

    Yes.

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