Posted on 12/22/2003 5:28:49 PM PST by gg188
"I wanted my soccer girls to play for each other ... not with each other"
That's the headline atop a (U.K) Sun article about the resignation of Gretna women's soccer team manager Barney Davidson, who quits after five years at the helm, even though his daughter is on the team.
There's just too much friction within the team, which won the Northern Women's League in 2002 and is currently fourth in the Northern Combination-League (which includes the Manchester United women's team).
"Half the team are lesbians and at one time there were more," Davidson tells the London Daily Mail. "I could write a book about some of the things that have gone on. I'm sick of the hassle. If one lesbian is with another girl in the team, and then she has a relationship with someone outside the team, these two girls fall out, and then their mates get involved and fall out and end up leaving the team. I like to win, and I find it very annoying if people in the team don't show the same level of commitment. I'm at the end of my tether. Some girls spend all the time squabbling rather than actually focusing on the game."
In February, the team looks like it will fold, but its season is saved at the last minute by Carlisle United, an English third division team, which provides uniforms and a place to play.
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