Interesting. The piece (by a male journalist!) starts, obsequiously, with this:

Joey Barton continued his sexist campaign against female pundits…

I seldom watch soccer other than World Cups, but friends tell me the female pundits are embarrassingly poor, and predictably obsessed by the emotional side of the game. One told me that one such pundit asked a Premier League footballer after a game how he felt about the result, to which he replied:

I feel we lost 3-1. Next question?

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