Laura Woods blasts Kenny Shiels after ‘emotional’ women remark

TV and radio host Laura Woods is the latest to blast Northern Ireland Women’s manager Kenny Shiels after he claimed women are “more emotional” than men. 

Shiels’ remarks came after his team lost 5-0 to England in front of more than 15,000 at Windsor Park. 

Speaking in his post-match press conference, he said: “I felt [England] were struggling a wee bit at times to open us up until the psychology of going 2-0 up in the women’s game. 

“I’m sure you will have noticed if you go through the patterns – when a team concedes a goal, they concede a second one in a very, very short space of time. 

“[It happens] right through the whole spectrum of the women’s game, because girls and women are more emotional than men. So, they take a goal going in not very well.”

A number of people have condemned Shiels’ words, including former Arsenal and England star Ian Wright, who said the Norther Irish boss was “talking foolishness.” 

And Woods has now echoed Wright’s thoughts and offered her own scathing assessment of the incident. 

While talking on the talkSPORT Breakfast, host Woods said: “I’m hoping not to react in too much of an emotional way for Kenny [Shiels] to digest this one. 

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“I think I’ve seen more teams capitulate across a broad spectrum of games in men’s and women’s football – I dont think it’s got anything to do with emotion, necessarily.

​​“What I do think it might have something to do with, is that England are ranked eighth in the world and Northern Ireland are 46th, so I’m just going to say