Rebekah Vardy sparks outrage by accusing women’s World Cup of side-lining men

Rebekah Vardy has sparked outrage by accusing the women's World Cup coverage of side-lining men.

Jamie Vardy's wife, 37, was not happy with an all-woman panel of pundits covering England's clash with Scotland last night.

The team featured BBC host Gabby Logan, ex-England defender Alex Scott, former USA player Hope Solo and ex-Scotland International Gemma Fay.

Vardy tweeted a picture of the panel at work, and hinted the BBC should have hired a male pundit to work with the women.

She wrote: "Umm what happened to equality…"

The WAG got viciously trolled over her post, with one follower writing: "It’s [equality] been missing for several years (read: centuries).

"But that’s never been a problem for you until now. Would love to see you uplift and empower women from the position you occupy rather than tearing people down."

Another added: "Yeah…but men aren't playing catch up when it comes to equality Rebekah."

A third tweeted: "Seriously. Ffs we’ve had to put up with male pundits for like ever.

"First bit of positivity for the game , women being super empowered, knowledgable and your complaining for a twitter ego boost."

Vardy was furious about the messages and returned to Twitter to slam the haters.

She wrote: "Imagine a world where people were allowed opinions without getting abused."

She went on to explain her tweet, insisting she does support women's football.

In a later posted she wrote: "I 100% fully support women’s football and women in football as I do in all sport!

"They did and do a great job! I’m just making a point.

"I’ll draw a line and say this…. men need to be more involved in women’s football to get it to where it needs and DESERVES to be…

"We have some incredibly talented players… end of."

Another follower later pointed out there was a male pundit on the panel for France's tournament opening match against South Korea.

Vardy snapped back: "You’ve missed my point. It was great to have women playing a prominent role in the men’s World Cup.

"Shocking for a big game that no men were available to cover it.

"If it had been Eng v Sco men, the men would have been fighting to cover it but not one there for the women’s game."

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