05-12-2024, 14:23
Yes Snoots, things are miles better now than they were in my youth. I was in my fortieth year before I dared to "come out". When I was an active sportsman I'd never have dared admit to my sexuality - nice as the people were I was involved with. It was a different world. But I did find a wonderful partner, whose passing I still grieve years on, and who introduced me to worlds and people I'd never have known without him.
Sam Morsy inhabits a much narrower world that's all. I can't help wonder about his attitude to women too, but the point for me is I don't want to condemn him or see him punished. If the rainbow campaign were entirely voluntary and players could genuinely show their support by making these gestures I'd be fully behind it. I love the thought of Snoots in rainbow laces, sitting at his keyboard! But my thought is that making it entirely voluntary makes the gesture itself political. And sport in general pretends it doesn't want that, despite often acting in a completely political matter.
Like me, I don't think Tom Robinson was entirely glad to be gay. Given the choice when I realised what I was, I'd have gone straight. I didn't realise then that it would mean I wasn't going to become me! I've had a good life, loved and been loved. And now I'm old.
I worry a bit for Marc Guehi and Jesus. Jesus was in his thirties and surrounded by MEN from all different backgrounds. Some of today's more clued-up generation might put two and two together and wonder about Jesus's own sexuality .......
No I can't condemn former Chesterfield man Sam Morsy, but if he really wants his religious beliefs to inhabit his life and his sport, he might consider behaving a bit better on the field, commiting less fouls and improving his poor disciplinary record too.
The truth is that though perhaps 10% of men might be gay, precious few would head for professional sport anyway. Many gay men have decidedly feminine characteristics, which might assist in an artistic sport like ice-skating, but don't intrinsically benefit footballers or rugby players unless they possess many other physical attributes. I don't think there will ever be a mass influx of gay men into football dressing rooms. Many of us would choose a make-up course or a dance session over a winter Saturday afternoon game of footie. And that's great.
Diversity beats compulsion any day of the week. BUT imposing rainbow laces and playing a World Cup in Qatar doesn't begin to add up.
ritchiebaby has a healthy attitude. Ideally this stuff just would BE. And it would be part of how things are ....... but lots of the world from Russia, through the Middle East and Africa would do more than disagree.
I won't close blowing kisses, that would be just too gay. Thanks for just BEING. And laughing is allowed too.
Sam Morsy inhabits a much narrower world that's all. I can't help wonder about his attitude to women too, but the point for me is I don't want to condemn him or see him punished. If the rainbow campaign were entirely voluntary and players could genuinely show their support by making these gestures I'd be fully behind it. I love the thought of Snoots in rainbow laces, sitting at his keyboard! But my thought is that making it entirely voluntary makes the gesture itself political. And sport in general pretends it doesn't want that, despite often acting in a completely political matter.
Like me, I don't think Tom Robinson was entirely glad to be gay. Given the choice when I realised what I was, I'd have gone straight. I didn't realise then that it would mean I wasn't going to become me! I've had a good life, loved and been loved. And now I'm old.
I worry a bit for Marc Guehi and Jesus. Jesus was in his thirties and surrounded by MEN from all different backgrounds. Some of today's more clued-up generation might put two and two together and wonder about Jesus's own sexuality .......
No I can't condemn former Chesterfield man Sam Morsy, but if he really wants his religious beliefs to inhabit his life and his sport, he might consider behaving a bit better on the field, commiting less fouls and improving his poor disciplinary record too.
The truth is that though perhaps 10% of men might be gay, precious few would head for professional sport anyway. Many gay men have decidedly feminine characteristics, which might assist in an artistic sport like ice-skating, but don't intrinsically benefit footballers or rugby players unless they possess many other physical attributes. I don't think there will ever be a mass influx of gay men into football dressing rooms. Many of us would choose a make-up course or a dance session over a winter Saturday afternoon game of footie. And that's great.
Diversity beats compulsion any day of the week. BUT imposing rainbow laces and playing a World Cup in Qatar doesn't begin to add up.
ritchiebaby has a healthy attitude. Ideally this stuff just would BE. And it would be part of how things are ....... but lots of the world from Russia, through the Middle East and Africa would do more than disagree.
I won't close blowing kisses, that would be just too gay. Thanks for just BEING. And laughing is allowed too.