the future for ashley cole

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scottdisco

rip this joint please
boomnoise said:
i do think it's interesting that the majority of rumours about players being gay have been about black players. i think this says something about the agenda of football writers.
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not sure about this tbh. the only players i know of (obviously only one pro-footballer has come out in the UK to date; poor soul) who have this sort of rumour thrown their way in recent years have been

- Ashley C and to an extent Jenas, i forget what this non-story was about, but if they were alleged to be doing something together, then that makes sense, clearly i'm not defending tabloid insinuations and the larger set of values that has framed them as acceptable, but it's as natural as night following day in tabloid logic {sic}

- Sol

- Le Saux

- G Neville (who is married to a woman, but... etc etc etc)

- J O'Shea

- Antoine Sibierski (ex Newcastle, Manchester City, among other teams)

some football fans are undoubtedly homophobes, a smaller number are racists of one stripe or another (including good old-fashioned anti-semitism and somewhat new-fangled anti-Muslim bigotry, no doubt); i think football writers are slightly more liberal as a rule than the excesses of some fans, even the guys who write for the Express (most illiberal paper wrt social attitudes in the UK), the backpage guys are actually OK, warm, politically humane, etc. (certainly a lot more so than either their main paper peers or quite a lot of fans of the beautiful game.)

so, no, i don't think there's an agenda based on skin colour at all wrt this sort of 'issue'.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Does it matter?? (for his wife it does, obv)

I was watching the Leeds goal celebrations the other day, and, when you remove the supposed social 'context' in your head, as I did at that moment, it really is absurd that people doubt a lot of footballers are gay - what an opportunity to be jumped on by lots of testosterone-addled men, especially if you're good at scoring!
 
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