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<\/p>\nEmma Hayes believes football is full of \u2018systemic misogyny\u2019 <\/p>\n
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Chelsea Women manager Emma Hayes believes male privilege has been at the centre of football in England.<\/p>\n
Joey Barton was heavily criticised for comments he made on social media suggesting that women \u201cshouldn\u2019t be talking with any kind of authority on men\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
Barton went on to appear on Piers Morgan\u2019s talk show on Thursday where he claimed women football pundits were hired to \u201ctick boxes\u201d, but argued he was not sexist.<\/p>\n
Hayes, who has routinely stood up for values she believes in during her role as Chelsea manager said, when asked about the comments in a press conference on Friday: \u201cThe realities are male privilege has always been at the centre of football in this country,<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that sport is the last place in society where that male privilege exists.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayes is due to leave Chelsea at the end of the season and take up her new role as head coach of the United States women\u2019s national team, but has also worked as a pundit across men\u2019s and women\u2019s football.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t expect any individual to understand their privilege. Nonetheless you only have to see scores of women across the internet or in the business – whether that\u2019s coaches, presenters, players – we\u2019re routinely used to dealing with systemic misogyny, bullying and behaviour that has been pretty normal for a large part of the football public,\u201d Hayes said, reported by the BBC.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you haven\u2019t experienced systemic misogyny, like lots of us have, you can\u2019t for one moment understand how detrimental some of these conversations are knowing that anything anyone says just enables an absolute pile on, particularly on social media,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to the sport of football in this case, we have to remember that society isn\u2019t always as well represented across the media or across the game in coaching or playing.\u201d<\/p>\n