John Amaechi "The FA are wrong to blame the fans" (re: homophobic problem in football)

Another piece of quality video from the BBC where you can't hear the interviewer.

The guy being interviewed, is a moron, "the FA are at fault because they've just hired their first woman". Yeah, there are SOO many women in football that its entirely shocking that women hadn't gotten onto the FA board till now. In fact for the incredibly few women involved in football, management, coaching, training, physio's and club level on boards, having someone on the FA board is pretty unexpected.

Everything he's said is nonsense, he hasn't said ANYTHING, at all. The fa are wrong, because of this entirely different point, the fa are clearly at fault because England haven't won an World cup recently.

Again he consistently talks about dinasours in the halls of the FA(or wembley I think he put it) he hasn't said anything, at all, Arsenal haven't won a league in 7 years, therefore they can't deal with racism or homophobia in football? No that would be equally ridiculous, he's just made a statement then run off on a tangent with another point. We wholly own football(kind of) therefore we should be up in arms more than people are over bonuses?

it's not the fans fault they are homophobic individuals, its the FA's. This guy comes across as utterly retarded, but because he can speak in a calm tone he's speaking sense?

He ALMOST had a point with a manager coming out and saying homophobia won't be tolerated either, however, players have been racially abused far more than have been abused over being gay. Fergie was commenting on something in the press that was on going. If, lets say Rooney came out next week then fans abused him and it was all over the press I'd expect a similar comment from Fergie. Problem is homophobia in football is, well, it's not actually provable/shown/big news till someone comes out and something happens.

There will be abuse if someone came out, most fans would be fine with it. Racism is more in your face because you can't hide the fact you're black.

Should it not also be pointed out that, he only had the courage to come out AFTER he retired and wouldn't be abused by the fans he says aren't to blame. I fully understand anyone not wanting to come out while subject to being abused while working, but ultimately until some more players come out while playing in the NBA/prem league, then not much is going to change.
 
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If you take a second to read into the issue a bit more, you'l see that people speaking on behalf of gay footballers (who wish to remain anon) are afraid to 'come out' not because of the fans, but rather because of team-mate and rival footballer reactions.

So then you'l realise just how daft it is of the FA to produce video material which blames the fans
 
drunkenmaster said:
Yeah, there are SOO many women in football that its entirely shocking that women hadn't gotten onto the FA board till now. In fact for the incredibly few women involved in football, management, coaching, training, physio's and club level on boards, having someone on the FA board is pretty unexpected.
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Hahahaha.

Women's football DM. Look it up, it's surprisingly popular.
 
drunkenmaster said:
He ALMOST had a point with a manager coming out and saying homophobia won't be tolerated either, however, players have been racially abused far more than have been abused over being gay. Fergie was commenting on something in the press that was on going. If, lets say Rooney came out next week then fans abused him and it was all over the press I'd expect a similar comment from Fergie. Problem is homophobia in football is, well, it's not actually provable/shown/big news till someone comes out and something happens.
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So it's essentially a chicken/egg situation in your view then? You can argue that there's no point coming out in support of homosexual footballers when there are officially none*...

The point being that it has to start somewhere and if it requires some of the people with the greatest stature in the game to say that to be homosexual is not just acceptable but normal then is that not worth doing?

You may or may not remember the incident(s) with Robbie Fowler and Graeme Le Saux a few years back where Robbie Fowler intimated that Le Saux was a homosexual - shouldn't this have been condemned in a stronger fashion than it was? From what I recall there were a few calls of "oh that Robbie, he's a bit of a card isn't he" but nothing more scathing than that by anyone respected in football. Racism and sexism are rightly now viewed by most as unacceptable but it seems at the very least arguable that football is lagging behind with regard to homophobia.

You may also note that John Amoechi didn't say he had all the solutions to the problem but he suggested that it might be sensible to look at the commercial world for some ideas - we're told frequently that football is a business now so why shouldn't it consider best practice elsewhere (balancing the books of clubs might also be a start but that's another debate)?

*or none at the higher professional levels at least.
 
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