You can’t play men against girls in this situation, either the girls would get severely injured, or the men would have to “play soft” just to ensure women weren’t hurt, in which case, the game, as a contest, is meaningless
I’m with you, I can’t imagine paying a physical contact sport against the other sex.
I have the suspicion you are thinking about American Football.
This story happened in Oslo, so I guess it is about Soccer.
The only physical sport I can think of that would be ridiculous between men and women for a good time would be real football. That's why girls/women hardly ever play it. Soccer, and Hockey are both considered contact sports, but the sexes can have plenty of fun playing them together. You just legislate the physical part out. I'm guessing soccer for females might have an equivalent to no-check rules, but maybe it's such a pansy-assed activity anyway, that it isn't necessary
At its heart here, the controversy isn't over physical mismatches or danger to anybody. It is about male feelings of sexual inadequacy common in a certain culture that has resulted in comical oppression (if that's possible) of women. You know what Mr. Imam? What do you bet that most of your women desperately long to ditch you and your hang ups, stash the potato sack, and be loved and ravaged by a western man who isn’t afraid of a little ankle?