TV presenter Laura Woods appears to be like to have responded to Eni Aluko’s newest feedback.
Laura Woods has made a collection of posts on social media (Picture: Carl Recine, Getty Photos)
Laura Woods has angrily responded to Eni Aluko’s remarks concerning her restricted alternatives as a pundit. This comes after the presenter reacted to Aluko’s current outburst concerning the media panorama within the girls’s sport.
Former England worldwide Aluko was embroiled in controversy over feedback about Ian Wright’s involvement within the girls’s sport. Arsenal legend Wright later declined to just accept her apology. Throughout an look on the 90s Child Present, Aluko commented on the choice of pundits for final 12 months’s Euro 2025 girls’s ultimate, the place England triumphed over Spain, noting that two out of six pundits throughout BBC and ITV have been male. She stated: “Within the girls’s sport the alternatives are much more restricted, so the primary characters of the present ought to be the ladies.
“Males ought to be a part of that. I am not saying anyone ought to be excluded, I imagine in variety wholeheartedly, however the identical approach we have performed a job within the males’s sport that is a supporting function, you are a part of the ensemble, you are by no means going to get the premium ultimate video games, it ought to be the identical approach for ladies’s soccer.
“I believe we have to shield the ladies’s sport in the identical approach the boys’s sport is protected. What I imply by that’s, and you have heard me focus on the journey of ladies’s soccer, it is taken some time, it is taken a variety of blood, sweat and tears to get the ladies’s sport to the place it’s now.”
Aluko continued: “There’s lots of people, together with me, who’ve sown many seeds to be reaping what we’re reaping now… TV, cash coming into the sport, funding, and it is nonetheless rising. From my perspective, we did not undergo all of that – blood, sweat and tears – for ladies to be second place in our personal sport. What are we doing? That is my level, the ladies’s sport ought to be by girls for ladies.
“Male allies ought to completely assist that however when it will get to the purpose the place you are the primary character of the present, we’re simply repeating the patriarchal stuff that we have been preventing in opposition to.”
Nonetheless, ITV and TNT Sports activities presenter Woods took problem with Aluko’s stance. On Monday, the TV host voiced her opinion throughout a number of social media posts.
Writing on X, Woods acknowledged: “Caps do not win automated work they usually do not make a superb pundit both. The best way you talk, articulate your self, do your analysis, inform your viewers, how likeable you’re and the chemistry you have got along with your panel are what makes a superb pundit.
Caps don’t win automated work they usually don’t make a superb pundit both. The best way you talk, articulate your self, do your analysis, inform your viewers, how likeable you’re and the chemistry you have got along with your panel are what makes a superb pundit.
— Laura Woods (@laura_woodsy) February 9, 2026
“‘The ladies’s sport ought to be by girls for ladies,’ is without doubt one of the most damaging phrases I’ve heard. It won’t solely drag girls’s sport backwards, it can drag girls’s punditry in all types of the sport backwards.
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“If you wish to develop one thing, you do not gate hold it. We wish to encourage little boys and males to observe girls’s soccer too, not simply little women and girls. And once they see somebody like Ian Wright taking it as significantly as he does – they comply with swimsuit. That is the way you develop a sport.”
Concluding her thread, Woods acknowledged: “This is an image of our group at ITV. We received greatest manufacturing on the Broadcast Sport Awards 2025 for our protection of the ladies’s euros. Seb Hutchinson received greatest commentator too. So I believe ITV obtained it good.”
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