Very Brave

Well done to the lad. I hope it inspires others. Race, colour, creed or sexual preferences should not define anyone, I hope his career continues to flourish, unfortunately I feel he will get some much undeserved ribbing, but I hope he just laughs it off. Again, good luck to him, as long as he doesn’t score goals against my team, I wish him all the best.

Who cares if ge is Gay there is nothing wrong with it.

comment by AMG (U22768)
posted 19 minutes ago
Who cares if ge is Gay there is nothing wrong with it.

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A lot of people think there is something wrong with it, guess that’s the issue here, and probably people on this football forum included in that.

If he gets any abuse I hope they throw the book at anyone doing it. So brave what he’s doing but this could be a game changer. If he doesn’t get abuse and the sponsorship deals come rolling in, thankfully all those other guys suffering in the closet can come out and feel free in the knowledge that they’re not gonna get judged by their fellow man. My brother is gay and the idea of him getting abuse for his sexuality is just plain moronic. I’m quietly confident that any abuse this kid does get will be the quiet minority so screw them. They’re dinosaurs.

He's not a 1st team regular, will soon dissapear and nobody will remember him

comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 1 hour, 49 minutes ago
He's not a 1st team regular, will soon dissapear and nobody will remember him
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He's 17. By all accounts he's got quite bright future ahead of him and I really hope he does. It'll be fun watching the homophobes squirm when he reaches the top of the game.

comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 3 hours, 7 minutes ago
He's not a 1st team regular, will soon dissapear and nobody will remember him
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He's 17 ffs

comment by ABC Jelly (U22709)
posted 18 hours, 21 minutes ago
comment by Diafol Coch 77 (U2462)
posted 45 minutes ago
Some of the comments in reply to a Premier League tweet wishing him all the best are shocking.
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Truly so. My favourite was “stop this s*** there are only two genders” lol.

Fair play to the lad.

To those saying it shouldn’t matter the fact is that it does. The last time we had an openly gay footballer in this country he was driven to suicide. It like when people talk about race and say well meaning but empty platitudes like I don’t see colour. When we stop seeing the factors that lead to the structural marginalisation of certain groups of people, we reinforce the social systems that lead continue to work against them. That’s why this is important and needs to be acknowledged as such.
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100% Brilliantly put!

Was listening to MOTD Rest of the World top 10 podcast the other day. Lineker made a good point about how race, religion or whatever didn’t matter in the changing room, training ground or on the pitch, and how football is a great leveller in that regard.

Think it’s more worry about fans using being gay as banter and it inevitably going too far.

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 6 minutes ago
Was listening to MOTD Rest of the World top 10 podcast the other day. Lineker made a good point about how race, religion or whatever didn’t matter in the changing room, training ground or on the pitch, and how football is a great leveller in that regard.

Think it’s more worry about fans using being gay as banter and it inevitably going too far.
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This is something I've learnt from speaking to my brother, who's gay. I've definitely been in the pub before with a few mates where one of them will have said, when I'm behind everyone else on my rate of drinking "Come on, drink up gay boy". I used to brush that off as just a bit of a laugh between mates but all that 'banter' does is reinforce a stereotype. I'm not gay, no one around the table that day was gay but that shouldn't matter. Everyone has a duty to stop inflammatory language like that as, although the intention had nothing to do with sexuality, it did have everything to do with weakness or emasculating behaviour so in a sense it reinforces the idea that being gay is somehow lesser or lower than. I used to say it myself on occasion but I've stopped doing it now. As far as I'm concerned there's no room for 'gay banter' as even if it's well intentioned or mild, it's part of the building blocks of something far more damaging.