to supporters’ groups on combatting direct and indirect homophobia, there would be acknowledgment of pride year-round, there would be hardline zero tolerance and punishment. but no, the prem don’t want to risk losing homophobic fans, so they’ll only pander one week a year. 2/2

does she warrant a place in the hof on her own merit? maybe, probably. but surely those two and probably some others get their inscriptions first 😅

and (the point of the thread), *that* is what people are reacting to. not to mazraoui or any people/entity in particular rejecting the campaign, but to man united and their 2002-era pr management that somehow thought unnecessarily protecting a homophobe was a priority.

like, think how rashford is an inspiration to fans. a top is minimal passive support but it could mean a lot to those young fans. man united has instead told them that it’s better to hide yourself to make someone who hates your existence not feel bad about that. that’s awful…

denying any players who want to show allyship the opportunity. those players are not allowed to express themselves because their club would rather everyone look homophobic as a team than just the guy who passionately is sticking out. that’s the message to queer players and fans…

if they’d just let him not wear the top and let everyone who wanted to wear it do so, a few people would’ve reacted but altogether it would’ve been unremarkable. instead, man united went back on a promise to show a very basic level of support for queer people in football. and …

#tomeout #tomedimision #montseout #montsetomedimision

note that for her lack of (official) international goals, walsh has had one of the best goalscoring starts to the season among the lionesses. still, she’s only a handful of caps from being the single most-capped non-scoring lioness ever, only keepers to beat.

hammarby and st pölten (who city didn’t exactly whitewash before) have the opportunity to do the funniest thing 😅

like is this some kinda romanticism of the other country’s culture going both ways 🤔

weird bc in the uk a lot of people ik think the british version is cringe and the aussie version is entertaining