Climate Change Killing Football, Says Silly Katie Rood
By Paul Homewood
h/t mjr
This woman has serious mental problem.
From the Guardian:
When I play football I feel free from the worries of day-to-day life. But as a young person living in a climate and environmental crisis, these worries have become increasingly hard to ignore. This has been made even harder by the fact that the climate crisis is killing my sport, and one of the companies most responsible is plastering its name all over football in England to distract from what it is doing.
As a professional footballer, I’ve had the privilege of representing my country, New Zealand, 15 times. From being a champion of Italy with Juventus to playing most recently for Hearts in the Scottish Women’s Premier League, I have been lucky enough to experience football in a variety of settings. The goal was always to use football as a means to experience the world, but it turns out the world I’ve been experiencing isn’t what I thought it would be.
For this reason I am using my career to fight for the defining issue of our generation: tackling climate change. Call me a hypocrite if you like – I would accept another call-up from New Zealand with all the travel involved – but nobody is perfect and that charge won’t stop me from using my platform to encourage positive change. If my New Zealand upbringing taught me anything, it’s that we have to do everything in our power to protect our precious ecosystems.
Climate change will have a devastating impact on women’s football. Last year I supported Football For Future’s evidence to the Future of Women’s Football Review, which laid bare this impact. Even at a professional level, women’s football does not have the infrastructure to protect players from severe weather events, frozen pitches and extreme heat. Many women’s teams do not play in their club’s main stadium, affording them less control over facilities.
And her evidence that climate change is destroying the beautiful game?
“In the 2022 Euros, the Lionesses were forced to train inside before their quarter-final against Spain owing to high temperatures. Last season, Chelsea’s fixture against Liverpool was abandoned after six minutes because of a frozen pitch. Scientists agree climate change makes extreme weather more likely. We are already seeing how the climate crisis is threatening the beautiful game.”
She evidently really does believe that frozen pitches are due to global warming! You really could not make it up (though the Guardian can!).
As for the 2022 Euros, guess what – it tends to get hot in Spain in July!
Poor Katie is clearly an intelligent girl, but this shows just how badly the younger generation have been brainwashed.
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There is no cure for stupid, and footballers are renowned for little in the way of intelligence (is Katie Roods an exception to the rule?) Add propaganda into the mix and you definitely get a Katie Roods.
In the realm of the stupid the barely intelligent is Queen
I think people like this person are called window lickers.
And being a kiwi, she probably adores Ardern.
what a load of absolute cobblers.
Absolutely hilarious! Thanks Paul for giving us such a good laugh.
‘Read more’. No thanks. She’s obviously headed a few too many hard balls for her own good.
The worrying thing is Harry, that if you go to hte Graun article, Barclays Bank actually responded to her. Why Barclays indulge knuckle draggers like this is quite beyond me.
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Was wondering what publication would print the tosh that Katie came out with……& then saw it was Teh Graun. Ground Zero for window licking climate apocalypse
Even at Sunday League level the ref would not let a match start on a frozen pitch. Also, I wonder if the Spanish team trained inside.
A recent poll indicated that more of our youth are fed up with climate nonsense.
And like any youth (and I’m talking school leavers here) they, like we did, tend to rebel against the orthodoxy.
Why doesn’t she just take up tiddlywinks, or conkers?
No extreme weather or extinctions to worry about there!
Haven’t you heard that Vlimate Change ir threatening the Horse Chestnut’s survival?
Strewth! What else is there to say?
Not much credit to the Guardian either. Might have been an attempt at ‘irony’ or a dry run for April 1st.
This is what comes of heading the ball too often, although maybe there wasn’t much to damage anyway.
From the article:
” But as a young person living in a climate and environmental crisis, “
She’s been indoctrinated, probably as part of her education and certainly by the medjia.
Thanks to Paul H for continually producing detailed, factual material on this website to counter the belief in the crisis.
Katie needs to stick to football. The less she says the better.
Unfortunately its not just ‘climate’ its most of the ‘WEF’ stuff, the young are embracing it. When us old duffers leave this mortal coil, the dreams of the ‘controllers’ will be realised with little complaint.
Sadly many of us are grateful we are nearer the end than the beginning.
scarcely credible anti-science, pseudo-eco drivel, probably the result of school indoctrination and peer-pressure group-think enhanced by virtue signalling.
God help her if she had played in the winter of 1962/63! I believe there might have been an occasional cancellation due to frozen pitches! Pools panel? Stan Mortensen would turn in his grave!
I had a Saturday job at Littlewoods Pools in the late 60s. I remember the Pools Panel well. They predicted the results many times before the days of underground heating.
I remember the joke of a manager being sacked because of his Polls Panel results – I think these days it would probably happen.
”…women’s football does not have the infrastructure to protect players from severe weather events, frozen pitches and extreme heat. Many women’s teams do not play in their club’s main stadium, affording them less control over facilities.”
Football is a Northern hemisphere Winter sport, which is why it is a mans’ sport – men handle cold conditions better than women (biology) – and evidently the above is evidence confirming this.
What is ‘devastating’ women’s football is nobody wants to watch it outside of Diversity & Inclusivity Inc, as it is as dull as ditchwater.
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Women need smaller pitches and smaller goals but to admit this is to admit that men and women – penis-free – are actually different.
“Save women’s football!”
What? Who knew there was women’s football?
Let me see, drive my car or save women’s football?
LetmethinkaboutitIthoughtaboutitnoI’lldrivemycar.
That took a millisecond.
😂.
Let’s burn rubber and in my case, smell that diesel.
“Call me a hypocrite if you like ” No I will simply call you a hypocrite. I don’t like you being a hypocrite.
No, I’m doing far worse than calling her a hypocrite: I’m ignoring her.
It’s quite extraordinary that she won’t stop flying but thinks the problem is Barclays. And earns her living doing something completely luxury, that requires huge amounts of oil (balls, boots, travel, floodlights, goal netting…) but thinks Barclays are the problem.
And then there is the Guardian using this appeal to pity to get us to back “climate action.”
She is not a pitiable character.
When I play football I feel free from the worries of day-to-day life.
Well, that’s nice. I like walks on the beach and pina coladas.
So, if this is one of the effects of the so called climate catastrophe, it’s not all bad then!!
Best she stops running around the pitch so much, then there will be less CO2 exhaled thus saving the planet.
Two more football related issues…
This weekend is Green Football Weekend sponsored by Ecotricity which is more of the same climate change mumbo jumbo but particularly concentrating on vegetarian pies at half time (as featured on sky and TNT being tested by intrepid reporters (and with a foreword by footballs favourite gobsh*te Linacre
More seriously, see (191) English Football Clubs SPY On Non-Woke Fans – YouTube. Free Speech Union talking about Premier league spies monitoring supporters’ social media and supporters being banned for not being woke (currently re genders but roll on climate bollox)
Second item also now picked up my MSM Former Whitehall mandarin led Premier League ‘Stasi’ which banned gender-critical Newcastle fan (telegraph.co.uk)
Rather than calling her silly or stupid, I would take up her invitation to call her a hypocrite. Defending herself on the basis that “nobody is perfect” doesn’t really cut the mustard with me when she’s writing articles in the Guardian protesting about climate change and seeking to de-fund Barclays. She would probably achieve more if she personally stopped flying all over the world in order to play a game.
Anything she does will make no difference. Thinking one has the ability to control the climate is mere vanity (and insanity).
I’d call her utterly pathetic. She requested entirely on oil not just to survive but to earn her living, then walks for oil investment to be stopped. Barclays only funds oil projects because she consumes oil. The abdication of responsibility is utterly pathetic.
Heading the ball too much missus. Addles the brain. did she never hear about the pools committee of the 1960’s who met to decide what might have happened if a game had not been cancelled due to frozen pitch. They met many times Maybe all NZ women are as daft and precious as the mendacious and manipulative and downright evil Jacinda Ardern. Nah! This one is just silly and may grow out of it
The reason Katie Rood and people like her attack Barclays rather than China is because China is already an authoritarian Communist state.
OMG what would the world do without women’s volleyball? Or is that soccer? Regardless, it has nothing to do with climate change!
I was arguing with someone on the Twitter yesterday about the idiots who threw pumpkin soup at the Mona Lisa. He endorsed it because he said it helped French farmers. Nitrous oxide emissions….?
I live in a French rural community. What French farmers want is to be left alone, not “helped” by idiot children.
Obviously one of her 40 perches.
New Zealand really does seem to have become a nation of stupid, self-righteous narcissists. Perhaps the oil producing nations should take them up on their sanctimonious preaching and stopping providing the country with oil, gas and petroleum products of all kinds.
This is one of the most empty-headed, ignorant commentaries that I have ever read. I think Katie should stick to soccer. Never been hot before. Never been cold before. Never had wild weather. Katie, I am 70 and I can tell you that in those 70 years alone it has been very cold before, it has been very hot before and we have had lots of wild crazy weather before. And the future hasn’t happened yet. Sadly, Katie sounds really stupid. Relevance deprivation syndrome?
Correction Paul. She cannot possibly be an intelligent girl!
There’s a quality of nastiness in the Guardian. Is nastiness the right word? A willingness to allow contributors to make silly fools of themselves while furthering the Guardian’s private agenda which in itself is extremely damaging. “Tackle climate change”. By reducing atmospheric CO2? Good luck with that , sweetie-pie.
what a Twit.( I can’t spell ).
Not the lack of reference to any data. Who needs data when a feminist is being emotional. It is her feelings which matter, not facts.
To quote this useful idiot.
“Climate change will have a devastating impact on women’s football“.
Surely even if she believes the tosh she has inhaled, the issue should be football, not “wimins football” or does their mystical klymutt sheyngshe not affect men all of a sudden? You cannot have it all ways but hey she is clearly a 4th gen feminist and men can go under the bus as far as she cares because her cause is laid bare…. it is wimin!
“Poor Katie is clearly an intelligent girl, but this shows just how badly the younger generation have been brainwashed”.
Paul, I am not as kind as you. If she is regurgitating baseless pap she is clearly just one more platform seeking useful idiot open to a nice little climate gig based on her woke credentials.
Delingpole coined the term: argumentum ad puellam pulchram. Argument
from a Pretty Girl.