Joey Barton has branded women's football an "interior product" to men's football - and reckons they should use smaller goals, pitches and balls.
Chelsea women's manager Emma Hayes recently received criticism for suggesting that goals should be minified to minimise the 'physical differences' between women and men.
But now current Fleetwood Town boss Barton has gone a step further in calling for even more changes to occur to boost the women's game.
Speaking to podcast Football, Feminism & Everything in Between , Barton said: "It's a different sport though really, in essence - women's football should be adjusted for women, physiologically, biologically.
"The goal sizes and the weight of the ball should be [changed].
"If we're going to make women's football better, as a spectator sport, to stand on its own in the marketplace, if you keep playing on the same size of pitches as men with the same size of football as men and men's rules, you're always going to have an inferior product - because men are bigger, stronger and faster than women.
"If you tailor it, women's football could take a lot of strides tactically and technically - way beyond its current limitations.
"Let's be realistic about it. The size of a football for men's a size five, say we moved the size of a women's football down to a size four, would anybody really notice the difference?
"No, but I guarantee you in terms of the physicality and the output, level of passes and the range of passes players some of the women players would then be able to do because the ball's a bit smaller and the ball's more suited to their physiological state."
Barton, who played for Manchester City , Newcastle , Queens Park Rangers, Marseille, Burnley and Rangers during his career, has previous with women's football.
In 2012, he sponsored a shirt of a member of the Newcastle women's team.
