Soldato
If rugby can get the ball rolling (no pun intended) then surely football can.
Joe Lycett - Qatar/Beckham debate
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Soldato
Absolutely. I think there’s been a couple have come out after their careers were over but there’s bound to be players currently playing out there that are gay. Says a lot about our own society when they still aren’t comfortable coming out in 2022.
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What do you think should happen then?
Soldato
There’s no way there’s no gay footballers already playing in the leagues. The issue is they clearly don’t feel comfortable ‘coming out’
Caporegime
Like I said, if you think that's the problem then you won't understand.
Caporegime
Rugby has still been incredibly slow and unfortunately it turns out their homosexual poster boy is an absolute ********.
Soldato
Yep slow, but better than football.
Soldato
I was assuming that David Beckham had came out.
Also, is bender a nice term? I didn’t think it was used by anyone, even homosexuals, unless being used in a derogatory way?
Also, is bender a nice term? I didn’t think it was used by anyone, even homosexuals, unless being used in a derogatory way?
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Footballer Murray 'blown away' by support after coming out as gay
Zander Murray became the first senior professional footballer in Scotland to come out as gay last week.
www.bbc.co.uk
And anyone questioning fifa being bribed for this, well even the then president (done for bribes etc) said it was a 'mistake' awarding Qatar the tournament..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63554507
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It's the hashtag being used by the community to highlight the issue, it's being used in an ironic way.
Caporegime
Footballer Murray 'blown away' by support after coming out as gay
Zander Murray became the first senior professional footballer in Scotland to come out as gay last week.www.bbc.co.uk
And anyone questioning fifa being bribed for this, well even the then president (done for bribes etc) said it was a 'mistake' awarding Qatar the tournament..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63554507
He didn't seem to think it was a mistake at the time when he was taking the cash.
Soldato
Precisely!
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Wait what? I am so confused about my identity right now.
You'd hope all this criticism is enough.
Has anyone pointed out the irony of the OP using a homophobic slur in the title of a thread about respecting the LGB community?
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Oh, OK. I didn't read it, I saw Joe Lycett and bounced. But thanks for the enlightenment
Edit: OK I decided to read it. What an arrogant twonk.
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I just watched the video in that link. I honestly don't think David Beckham will give a flying ****.
My bad, I had my reply open for a while and hadn't refreshed so didn't see that.
Either way, I think it's poor form to sell out for a shameless pun.
Caporegime
And the people who give out honours consider how that will be received by the public. No they are not beholden to them but they consider things like this when deciding.
From what I have seen, people aren't doing this. They are focussing on Qatar as if their meaningless hand wringing and condemnation will do any good. Hit the money people if you don't want these places to be palatable for events like this.
Are you questioning the idea that out of 700 or so PL players there are no gay men. I say good sir, nothing more manly than modern football.
In all seriousness, I do find it odd because society at large has almost 0 issue with it and I doubt many players would either. Probably just needs someone to "get the ball rolling".
My money is on Ronaldo at some point.
Its OK as long as you are LGBTQ. Its like using the N word.