there is one…
That’s not what I said. Read what I wrote.
And Cat has just told me that we shouldn’t have to only post positively, so that’s an out. 
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On this, by the way - and for those in search of deeper insight - I believe the Channel 4 documentary is still available on All4 (if you have VPN).
Don’t think for a minute the ban was merely sexism - it turned more in fact on the women’s support (including financial) for striking miners, in the febrile post-war and post-russian-revolution atmosphere.
Women were “becoming part of a political movement, and football was a representation of that” - as that dangerous leftie Clare Balding commented…
I posted there about the kestrels nesting in our gable wall - but I mitigated the cheerfulness by also mentioning that they had killed the grass underneath the nest, so I think I got away with it.
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That happens in The Lodge which is just for TL4 members 
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Good grief, what a foot stamping post, a Violet Elizabeth moment David? 
While everyone’s input should be treated with due respect, swanning on here with no track record of contribution and laying down the law according to David is probably not going to elicit a strong positive response.
I’m actually a bit fed up with whinging, to coin a phrase, too.
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I’ve always thought that there were two aspects to SF; the advice aspect that now has many years of invaluable accumulated knowledge within existing threads, plus the benefit of the opinions of the many current contributors who really know their onions.
The other aspect is social and can be great fun. We have Stella’s no bad news thread 
, which every one respects and anyone can follow her lead with their own “no bad news” threads, if they wish.
I tend to post stuff that I fear people might have missed, because IMO the only reasons the many shyster politicians, anywhere, get away with it is lack of focus and voters collective short memory. I have to admit, since I retired and and have actually had the time to look at what these clowns are up to it has appalled me.
As I’ve said before, I will not be offended if anybody wants to mute me, but as long as the owners of the site deem my ramblings and other contributors’ political comments acceptable, I’d appreciate it if those that don’t, or who are not interested, stop whinging 
It’s groundhog day
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Finally…. I think the site is really well moderated
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Don’t you mean
I’m going to start using that with everyone I speak to now, both online and in person. Instructing people to take note seems like the key to winning friends and influencing people.
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Note taken 
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The idea that women’s football is substantially political is ultimately part of the sickness of the Left because it is simply a ploy for control by the brainwashed. The result leads to the East German perspective of using athletics as a political weapon, where athletes are drugged and used and slung away or become mistresses of the like of Putin and Caesescu.
Discuss!
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But it is no longer the Left that is heading in the direction of Putin - Russia has so much control of the Conservative Government having paid their way to control the direction.
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Hahahahahahaha
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That’s an interesting perspective. Could you develop it?
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Politics impacts on many aspects of life for all of us wherever we live or whatever our circumstances which is why it creeps into many posts.
It’s not so much that it’s so prevalent in many SF posts that irritates me but rather it’s the way it seems to constantly reference back to UK politics rather than French or European politics …which is where most of us live. So in addition to trying to reduce "politics " can’t we reduce the focus on “what’s wrong with the UK and Johnson/Truss/Sunak et al” and comment on France…and Europe, eg the likely impact of the right wing (loved by France’s RN) achieving power in Italy in Sept. Integration is more than becoming part of local village life but following (if one is “political”) the wider European vista.
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That’s a fair point, and one which frustrates me, too. I don’t claim to know a lot, but I’m eager to learn.
Is that “by” or “of”?