'Can you imagine how any closeted players, still too afraid to come out, will have felt knowing this one simple message of tolerance, love and acceptance is still too much?'
As I sneakily watched England’s first match of the World Cup 2022 during my lunch break, listening to the cheers and excited commentators screaming ‘GOAAAAL’ six times over, I found myself feeling sadder and sadder. The beautiful game, seeped in our British DNA like fish and chips and Corrie, unites us all: men, women, old, young, brown, black or white. But for myself, as an LBGTQ+ person, with theI'll admit that, day-to-day, I’m not a huge football fan.
That’s why when, back in June last year at the Euro 2020 game between England and Germany, as Harry Kane proudly sported a rainbow captain’s armband around his bicep, it meant everything to me. It was a clear sign that LGBTQ+ people ARE welcome to join in, to scream alongside the butchest and burly. That, no matter who you are, this beautiful sport can be for all.
This is why on Monday, when I sat down to watch the England v Iran opening match, as Kane walked on to the pitch, I felt utterly let down. The sentiment is still there, of course, and I like to believe it was with a heavy heart – hands tied by FIFA’s last-minute threats of yellow cards – that Harry removed the rainbow and replaced it with the much more sombre band supplied by the powers that be.
made me feel as though one person, at least, was willing to put their head above the parapet. What a legend.when she said that it’s still too hard for male footballers to come out, yet in the women’s game this isn’t an issue. Some players are with women and some with men and it doesn’t matter. There was no discussion around any of this during the epic Euros triumph this year that saw the Lionesses bring football home, and that was because there didn’t need to be.
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