They can support whatever causes they want but they shouldn't turn their back on them at the first sign of money. You'll note Henderson is the only one really getting criticism.
Didnt know Telles and Bailly were big in fight for LGBT rights.
I'd say it's the other way around actually; we see a bit of ourselves in professional footballers as just regular guys who are just very talented/gifted playing football, whereas we already know the bulk of our politicians are money-grabbing self-centered assholes with little to no moral values if they have the opportunity to improve themselves or get up the career ladder.
No one is asking you to nor is anyone criticizing you if you didn't. But don't make it look like you care about the cause and then do a 180 turn once the big money comes calling, proving you never really cared that much anyway.
What are you on about?
Well said, it's pretty simple really, you don't get to champion a cause and do something genuinely good (while receiving plenty of adulation for doing so), and then do something to completely contradict this without criticism. This doesn't just apply to football but all walks of life.
He absolutely has, very obviously.
Literally, hence the criticism from LGBTQ+ groups, and others.Rightly so! Good to see Liverpool fans doing the same too.
Possibly. If he whips off his shirt after his first match to reveal a rainbow coloured undershirt with "Fight Homophobia" emblazoned on it, you may have a point. I doubt he will though. In fact, I reckon his rainbow coloured laces have gone straight into the bin, let alone anything else.
Harsh on @lewis Capaldi
His rainbow armband was literally greyed out in his presentation video. He's accepting to go to a country where it's a crime to be homosexual or part of LGBTQI+ community in general. People are acting like it's a country where it's "just not ok" to be gay, your life is actually in danger if you speak up and want to live out who you are.
Funny isn’t it. All those who proclaim not to have an issue here are never part of the LGBT community. Go figure
.I think he's a hypocrite, I don't think he deserves to die over there...
I think he still could've played an important role for us next season, if not on the pitch then surely off of it as an influential presence in the locker room.
Completely agree, I hope this helps stop footballers (and celebrities in general) standing up for things when it is convenient for them. If you support a cause, support it, if you don't, don't. He should get a huge amount of flak because he took it upon himself to position himself as such an ardent supporter of those groups.
This is a bit of a cop out - he's going to have no influence whatsoever from within, he's a football player without any real clout (it's not like he's Ronaldo or Benzema and even they would get shut down immediately) and the act of going to Saudi completely undermines any work he has done for those groups of people. Sure, as someone posted above, if he rips off his shirt to reveal a rainbow flag or similar public gesture people will think he's a hero but I doubt he wants to go to jail. It's actually not that big a deal in the grand scheme of everything wrong with the world, the sad thing is many people probably would sell their morals for such an insane amount of money, but he should get all the stick he's getting for it because it's important we are, at the very least, held accountable for what we say in public, esepcially if we are a public figure/celebrity.
Proof? Or just baseless conjecture?
