Former Manchester City and England national team midfielder Joey Barton believes women can't deal with men's football:
Joey Barton"Women shouldn't be talking to any authority in the men's game. Let's be serious. It's a completely different game. If you don't accept that, then we will always see things differently. Women's football is thriving. That's good to see. But I can't take what they say in the men's arena seriously.
Any man who sits and discusses football with women is a sell out. Fortunately, I've played at a high level and earned enough to say and do what I want. Any man who listens to matches with women commentating needs his head checked.
For example, it's if I was talking about knitting or netball. That's stepping out of your comfort zone. This has gone too far. You have a great England team, you have your Premier League, you have your Champions League. Please go and comment on that!
Companies have quotas to fill and tick boxes to tick. The experience of former professional players has been scrapped," Barton said.
Earlier, the head coach of Kyiv Obolon Valeriy Ivashchenko said that women are physically incapable of refereeing men's matches.
