{"id":142862,"date":"2023-10-18T16:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/?p=142862"},"modified":"2023-10-18T16:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:01:09","slug":"former-lioness-jill-scott-reveals-the-stick-shes-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprojectsworld.com\/lifestyle\/former-lioness-jill-scott-reveals-the-stick-shes-received\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lioness Jill Scott reveals the &apos;stick&apos; she&apos;s received"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former Lioness Jill Scott hits back at trolls who says she shouldn&#8217;t commentate on men&#8217;s football because she&#8217;s &#8216;only played the women&#8217;s game&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manchester-based Jill Scott dealt with abuse from the age of eight\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0The one lesson JILL SCOTT has learned from life: Family keep your feet on the ground \u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former professional footballer Jill Scott has revealed that she receives &#8216;stick&#8217; for commentating men&#8217;s football.<\/p>\n<p>The former England and Manchester City midfielder, 36, took to Loose Women\u00a0today &#8211; less than 24 hours after commentating on the\u00a0England Men&#8217;s Euros qualifier against Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a series of successes in the world of football, including winning the Euros last year, Jill has been subject to a stream of hateful comments online.<\/p>\n<p>The former Lioness revealed that she receives spiteful messages from people who claim she is not qualified to commentate the men&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the Loose Women panel, host Jane Moore asked Jill: &#8216;Even with all of your experience, do you get stick for being a woman commentating on football?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;d like to say no, but yes you do,&#8217; she replied.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/18\/16\/76706481-12644807-Former_Lioness_Jill_Scott_pictured_has_received_stick_online_sin-a-20_1697642131623.jpg\" height=\"785\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former Lioness Jill Scott (pictured) has received &#8216;stick&#8217; online since commentating men&#8217;s football\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Jill has built up a resilience against negativity, which began at the age eight when she was playing football in her hometown of Sunderland\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When it comes to men&#8217;s football people are like &#8220;you&#8217;ve never played the men&#8217;s game, so what do you know?&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>But Jill explained that for her &#8216;football is football&#8217;,\u00a0 regardless of whether it&#8217;s a male or female game, on the condition that &#8216;you know what you\u2019re talking about&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The former Lioness, who lives with her fianc\u00e9e, Shelly Unitt, drew on the example of Ian Wright- a male pundit who commentates the women&#8217;s football games&#8217; &#8211; and does a &#8216;very good&#8217; job at it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a strong mindset, Jill actively avoids social media, particularly X &#8211; formerly known as Twitter, because it typically breeds negativity around career.<\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8216;I don\u2019t look for validation on social media, I think it should come from friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think I\u2019ve just learned over the years to listen to the people that matter.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But the former Lioness became resilient against negativity at a young age, since playing a &#8216;boys game&#8217; would often result in abuse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/18\/16\/76710179-12644807-The_former_England_and_Manchester_City_midfielder_36_has_taken_u-a-22_1697642131626.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The former England and Manchester City midfielder, 36 has taken up punditry since retiring from football\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/18\/16\/76710321-12644807-Jill_revealed_that_she_started_getting_abuse_from_others_since_t-a-21_1697642131625.jpg\" height=\"703\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jill revealed that she started getting abuse from others since the age of 8 &#8211; when one mother told her son to kick Jill on the pitch (a younger Jill pictured above)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At eight-years-old, Jill took to the pitch in her hometown, but left the game in tears at the hands of the parent&#8217;s players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She explained: &#8216;The boys used to be okay and accept that you can play football&#8217;, but their parents were a different story &#8211; with one mother telling her son to kick Jill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Jill continued to pursue her passion of football.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I always picked my football boots up on a Tuesday because there was nothing that was going to stop me from playing the game that I love&#8217;<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She added: &#8216;I think from a very young age my resilience was building up so I&#8217;m quite thick skinned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;But you shouldn&#8217;t have to be really, you should just have to be able to do your job and enjoy it.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12644807\/Jill-Scott-trolls-football.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Lioness Jill Scott hits back at trolls who says she shouldn&#8217;t commentate on men&#8217;s football because she&#8217;s &#8216;only played&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Lioness Jill Scott reveals the &amp;apos;stick&amp;apos; 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