Laura Woods made it clear she wouldn't defend Eni Aluko after the former England Lionesses star embarked on yet another rant.
Aluko has been outspoken in recent years and, in 2025, caused outrage by suggesting that ITV allowing Ian Wright to perform punditry on their platform had limited her own opportunities within the game.
The 38-year-old proceeded to apologise to Wright, who then said that he 'couldn't accept' it.
Now, Aluko has embarked on yet another rant - with Wright mentioned. The ex-footballer, who represented the likes of Birmingham City, Charlton Athletic and Chelsea throughout her career, has hit out at the choice of pundits for the Lionesses' victory over Spain in the final of Euro 2025.
Speaking on the 90s Baby Show, Aluko fumed: "In the women’s game the opportunities are even more limited, so the main characters of the show should be the women.
"Men should be part of that. I’m not saying anybody should be excluded, I believe in diversity wholeheartedly, but the same way we’ve played a role in the men’s game that’s a supporting role, you’re part of the ensemble, you’re never going to get the premium final games, it should be the same way for women’s football.
"I think we need to gatekeep the women’s game in a way that the men’s game is gatekept.
"What I mean by that is, and you’ve heard me talk about the journey of women’s football, it’s taken a while, it’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get the women’s game to where it is now.
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"There’s a lot of people, including me, who have planted a lot of seeds to be reaping what we’re reaping now… TV, money coming into the game, investment, and it’s still growing.
"From my perspective, we didn’t go through all of that – blood, sweat and tears – for women to be second place in our own sport. What are we doing?
"That’s my point, the women’s game should be by women for women. Male allies should absolutely support that but when it gets to the point where you’re the main character of the show, we’re just repeating the patriarchal stuff that we’ve been fighting against.
"Now whoever that upsets, that upsets, but that’s the reality.
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Eni Aluko is a pundit for the likes of ITV and TNT Sports | GETTY"I’ve always been protective about women’s football because I’ve done a lot, I’ve invested a lot, I was doing women’s football when it didn’t pay to do women’s football.
"Now we’re reaping the rewards I’m like women should be winning right now.
"My point is, I’ve never done a major final in men’s football for eleven years, I’ve done three World Cups, men’s Euros, Champions League, I’ve never had that opportunity, and maybe rightly so, I’d probably say rightly so because again, I think the guys should always be ahead of me, the main guys.
"Last year, at the Women’s Lionesses final, I’m sat in the stands, I wasn’t on ITV for the final, Fara Williams was sat next to me, Fara Williams has 170 caps [172 caps] for England, something ridiculous, I think she’s the most-capped player, she’s sat in the stands.
"The two broadcasters that had the rights for the game – ITV and BBC – on BBC you’ve got Ellen White, Steph Houghton and Nedum Onuoha, no offence to Nedum Onuoha, nothing against him, I don’t know whether he played for England or not, but you’re on the main panel for the final for England Women.
"Let’s go over to ITV, I’m in the stands with 105 caps, so you’ve got two women, between us we’ve got 290 caps, something ridiculous, you turn over to ITV and it’s Ian Wright, Emma Hayes and Kaz Carney.
"So out of six punditry spots, two have gone to men. Meanwhile you’ve got 290 caps, whatever it is, sitting in the stands.
"I’ve just told you I’ve never done a final. I’m probably going to struggle to think of any women, a female pundit, who has done a men’s major final as a pundit.
Laura Woods was astonished by Eni Aluko's comments
| PA"I’m not talking about presenters, people like to conflate the two, it’s a different role, it’s like comparing a forward and a defender, it’s different jobs, I’m talking about as a pundit, it doesn’t happen, so something is not right there because I’m saying this is still quite new where you’re watching women’s finals on TV, why are people like me and Fara not there?
"It’s nothing against Ian, it’s nothing against them, I’m just saying broadly speaking we need to be aware of that because if we’re building a game where the limited opportunities are now being taken by men, where we can’t go into the men’s game and get the same opportunities, we’re stuck."
Woods, however, has now made her feelings clear.
The presenter initially commented 'wow' upon seeing the clip.
One X user then asked her whether she would defend Aluko after her latest outburst.
Woods simply responded: "Nope."