I've just had to step away from the BBC instagram item on this. Some idiot saying that he'll have the shower to himself now as you don't want someone looking at your ch8pper. To be fair he was in a minority but god have we got a long way to go still as a society.
Because many football fans are utter ars holes. How can you sit there being aware of Barnsley fans booing taking the knee and suggest football fans are ‘tolerant’. Society still does have issues with homosexuality, I’d say football is where society was 20 years ago.
I wish people would be like myself and many on here with a outlook and mindset of " I don't care, no news here" just like I don't care if a male player as a stunning woman, it as no impact on our lives, I do get the possible weight the player as been carrying around with him and he must feel elated, the bloke is gay, so what I wish we lived in a world where people didn't feel the need to publicise their sexuality, its 2021 not 1921, I wish him all the best
It happens frequently at Oakwell. Somebody (a reds fan) called an opposition player a '******' on Sunday, for example.
Hopefully someday in the future, people won't even have to 'come out", and we as a society stop thinking of being straight as the norm, and everything else being "different". I've said it before, but a good start would be not using the term "straight" for heterosexuality(as it gives the impression anything else is bent, or wrong)....
spot on DCM. Well done Cavallo! Cavallo has had massive support and this will have been noted by other gay sports men and women who want to 'come out' but are worried about what the response may be. Hopefully it will give them confidence IF they want to 'come out.' Having said that there shouldn't be an obligation or an expectation that gay sports people or anyone else should feel they have to 'declare' their sexuality. It should be an entirely personal choice.
Well done to him. It will be interesting to see if others choose to follow suit as, statistically, there are likely to be many other gay men currently playing professional football at the top level who have opted to stay silent so far. What this really highlights for me though is how brave and pioneering Justin Fashanu was in this regard. Perhaps his experience is what prevented anyone else doing the same thing for pretty much 40 years. I was a bit too young to see much footage of him in his prime so I don't know how bad the abuse he received was in this regard, but I can imagine it was merciless. However, given that he played in the era when black players were routinely getting bananas thrown at them from the stands I wonder if it was overshadowed by the racist abuse he would have no doubt received too.
He’s just been on breakfast tv, let’s hope he opens the doors for other footballers and other sports men and women to be able to come out, though it did make me snigger like a child when he was explaining how happy he was by using the term “my cheeks are hurting this morning”…I know I know
