The women's game has been forced to challenge authority figures - and that same fact is overshadowing Ireland and Vera Pauw.
We know this most obviously in respect of our own team, who took control of their own destiny in taking a stand at Liberty Hall, and where once the Irish players used airport toilets to change out of other people’s tracksuits, last week they flew first-class to Australia to change other people’s lives.
Canada went on strike in February to agitate for equal pay, a couple of months after the conclusion of a lawsuit taken by US players against their federation over the same matter. Nigeria are unique in Ireland’s World Cup group in not having at least threatened strike action lately, but relations with their federation are currently so fraught they are beating back reports they will boycott their opening game.
France this year sacked manager Corinne Diacre after ambient murmurings opposing her coaching methods coalesced in captain Wendie Renard quitting the squad. Herve Renard was brought in and now Wendie will captain France at the World Cup. Ada Hegerberg, meanwhile, is travelling as part of the Norway squad having ended a five-year exile from international football in protest at a perceived lack of respect for the women’s game.
Apart from that, however, the story has become a tennis match of claim versus counter-claim; of anonymous allegation against stringent denial. A report from the NWSL last December accused Pauw of weight-shaming and exerting excessive control over players’ eating habits, which she forcefully rejected while vowing to clear her name.
What is an acceptable way to talk to players? What level of control is appropriate for a manager to exert over their players? And who should be allowed to answer these questions? How much emphasis should the opinions of the players not selected under a manager hold in comparison to the players who are regularly selected? How much weight should be given to the manager’s own views in all of this? Can the background and age of a player and manager be allowed to inform their opinions on what...
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