Is it sexist to say football is a man’s game?

WHY all the fuss over Graeme Souness’s comment that football is ‘a man’s game’? The likes of Tommy Smith and Norman Hunter went in hard but got straight back up when they were tackled. They didn’t roll around the pitch like so many of today’s overpaid, pampered superstars.

Souness played in the era when footballers got stuck in and referees allowed the game to flow.

M. BARNES, Withernsea, E. Yorks. WITH head coaches brawling and a player head-butting an opponent, football is a man’s game — more’s the pity!

MICHAEL BROWN, Diss, Norfolk.

HOW can football be a man’s game when the players are wimps who fake injuries? Even children’s teams don’t do that.

PETER BRYANT, Salisbury, Wilts. THeRe’s men’s football and there’s women’s football and they don’t play together, so what’s the problem?

TERRY MARSH, Brighton. THERE were more tackles in the women’s Euros final than you’d see in half a dozen Premier League games. When I was manager of a Sunday league team, both sides would go hammer and tongs but there wouldn’t be any players writhing on the ground, crying like babies. At the end of the match, the teams would shake hands and go for a drink together. Football has changed and not for the better.

NORMAN HUNT, Sandwich, Kent. A sLY punch is a cowardly foul. Face-toface confrontation is manly.

LEONARD MACAULEY, Staining, Lancs. IF WOMEN footballers played and acted in the same way as Chelsea and Spurs, people would be up in arms. Women’s football is entertaining to watch, while the men’s game is more physical. Graeme Souness’s comment was not an insult or a slight, just an observation.