WOMEN in Football spoke out yesterday against the launch of the sexist and demeaning Lingerie Football League (LFL)

 

The league, which bizarrely claims it aims to “close the gender wage gap,” has come into attack over the past few days by feminists and Tony Farmer, the founder of Chelsea Ladies.

 

The players play in their underwear or crop tops and hot pants, which the LFL insists doesn’t “objectify women.”

 

Women in Football told girls on Twitter to “worry about your skill, not your g-string.”

 

One furious protester tweeted: “Is it April 1? Lingerie Football League? So, Sepp Blatter 4 Pres? Tyson Fury CEO? Benny Hill coach? Unbelievable.”

 

The league was due to start last night, with the first game being played on the roof of the Class of 92’s Hotel Football in Manchester.

 

Farmer has begun a petition against the sexist stunt which has drawn over 600 signatures, demanding that the ex-Manchester United players — Phil and Gary Neville, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs — distance themselves from the “ridiculous venture,” before they set “women’s football in the UK back at least 25 years.”

 

The petition states that this “will expose women and girl footballers who have worked so hard to have the right to play football to all the sexism and prejudices endured by their predecessor’s.”

 

The LFL began in the United States in 2009 but was rebranded the Legends Football League in 2013. 

 

LFL UK founder Gemma Hughes said she “knows it’s controversial” but claimed: “all money made is going to be put back into women’s football and to the players.”