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Darren Eales responds to Frank de Boer’s controversial comments on gender pay discrimination

Darren Eales appeared on 92.9 The Game Tuesday afternoon in the wake of a bombshell report by The Guardian in which Frank de Boer expressed controversial sentiments regarding compensation discrimination between men and women in sports.

“I think for me, it’s ridiculous,” De Boer told The Guardian when asked about the plans for equal pay. “It’s the same like tennis. If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women’s final, that’s a difference. So it’s not the same. And of course they have to be paid what they deserve to [earn] and not less, just what they really deserve.