Charlton Men are Relegated and the Women pay the Price
By: Bob | June 25th, 2007
After a dismal season in which their team was relegated from the English Premier League it is only natural to expect a few changes from Charlton. Manager Alan Curbishley stepped down after 15 years with the club, striker Darren Bent is being hawked like a piece of jewelry on the home shopping network, and naturally the club has decided to ax its most successful team.
Unlike the men’s team at Charlton, the women’s team has had success over the past decade, but that apparently doesn’t matter when you can save enough money to buy a bench player for the men’s team’s fight back to the Premiership.
The measure will give Charlton an annual saving of around £250,000, a large amount compared to the budgets of most women’s clubs, but small change in the running of a professional men’s club. Despite their relegation, Charlton will receive parachute payments of £11million a year for the next two seasons, while the impending sale of Darren Bent to Tottenham is set to bring in £16m.
Color me unimpressed with this decision. Last year I spent about 1.7 seconds thinking about women’s football in England and that 1.7 involved mud wrestling, oil and NSFW images. Nevertheless, I hate to see anyone get a raw deal and in this case the women of Charlton are paying the price for other people’s sins. Charlton should be ashamed.
Speaking of issues of gender equity that we thought we left behind in the 1990s, Andrea Canales, who writes for ESPN Soccernet among other outlets, details a rather unpleasant experience she had this weekend in the locker room with Columbus Crew defender Marcos Gonzalez.
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