| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay 17:17 - May 16 with 5403 views | STYG |
What a brave, awesome guy he is.
No doubt he will be subjected to abuse for a while and he's no doubt accepted that will sadly be the case, but he will hopefully be the role model he says he wants to be and be a small step at the start of real change.
When sexist abuse and racist abuse is still so rife in the game, even though it's so much better than it was, it's an obvious stick that morons will use to try and unsettle him with or throw at him.
But massive credit to him, to Blackpool and to have that pressure of being so early into his career and taking such a massive step is incredible. The only way prejudice will eventually be stamped out as much as possible is presumably visibility, inspiring others to do the same and allowing it to be commonplace and rightly accepted by future generations. The type of people that will be bothered by this are beyond changing sadly.
All the best in your career, Jake Daniels.
https://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/2022/may/16/a-message-from-jake-daniels/ [Post edited 16 May 2022 17:24]
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:18 - May 16 with 3032 views | blue62 |
Good on the lad. |  | | |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:18 - May 16 with 3028 views | tractordownsouth |
For me the most shocking thing is that he was born in 2005!
On a serious note, it’s a positive step and hopefully more will now feel confident enough to follow. |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:18 - May 16 with 3028 views | Illinoisblue |
The best thing to hope for is a big collective shrug and everybody moves on. |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:19 - May 16 with 3011 views | footers |
Good for him :)
Now I guess it's the litmus test of how far we've come since Fashanu... Let's hope the players and fans give him their full support. Must have been a hell of a decision. |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:23 - May 16 with 2964 views | STYG |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:18 - May 16 by Illinoisblue |
The best thing to hope for is a big collective shrug and everybody moves on. |
Wouldn't it be amazing if there was hardly any mention of it after the initial news and everyone just got on with it.
Sadly, we know it won't be and he knows it won't which is what makes his decision even more admirable.
My new favourite non-ITFC player. | | | |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:30 - May 16 with 2888 views | gtsb1966 |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:18 - May 16 by Illinoisblue |
The best thing to hope for is a big collective shrug and everybody moves on. |
Which is what will happen and rightly so. |  | | |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:32 - May 16 with 2872 views | itfcsuth |
Fantastic news!
Well done young man, I’m sure you’ll be an inspiration for others - wish him all the very best in his career. |  | | |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:33 - May 16 with 2862 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
Good on him, I'm sure there will be abuse but I think that may well get drowned out by the amount of support that I think he will and v much hope he does get.
It's a brave thing to do in football sadly shocking it's taken this long after Justin Fashnu |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:33 - May 16 with 2856 views | EastTownBlue |
The sad thing is this shouldn’t even be news in 2022 but hopefully this will help many others.
Well done and so brave of a 17 year old. We can only wish him well in his career. | | | |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:34 - May 16 with 2846 views | clive_baker |
Very brave, especially for someone so young. |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:38 - May 16 with 2797 views | BlueBadger |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:30 - May 16 by gtsb1966 |
Which is what will happen and rightly so. |
I salute your faith in football fans and human nature in general. |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:48 - May 16 with 2716 views | SitfcB |
Wonder what his teammate thinks…
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:52 - May 16 with 2681 views | Hipsterectomy |
Sadly I can see at least one news story next season of fans abusing him |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:53 - May 16 with 2680 views | jeera |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:48 - May 16 by SitfcB |
Wonder what his teammate thinks…
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Hmm, seems their player of the season has a few things to learn.
It's hardly going to go unnoticed either. |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:54 - May 16 with 2663 views | BrentwoodBlagger2 |
Why is this news? I don't care if he is gay or straight and I'm sure most people of average intelligence feel the same way. There are more important things going on at the minute, but good luck to him anyway for advertising this fact. | | | |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:54 - May 16 with 2649 views | BlueBadger |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:52 - May 16 by Hipsterectomy |
Sadly I can see at least one news story next season of fans abusing him |
Should we open a book on WHO'S fans it'll be?
I'll give you evens on Millwall and Leeds(ssuming they come down), 3/1 Birmingham, 100/1 Norwich.
/edit odds altered to reflect the fact that I've done Norwich fans a disservice here.
They might be inbred, delusional and hopelessly tinpot, but they're not overly racist. [Post edited 16 May 2022 18:19]
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:55 - May 16 with 2639 views | BlueBadger |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:54 - May 16 by BrentwoodBlagger2 |
Why is this news? I don't care if he is gay or straight and I'm sure most people of average intelligence feel the same way. There are more important things going on at the minute, but good luck to him anyway for advertising this fact. |
It's news because it's taken long, because there's a LOT of outdated attitudes still clinging on in football. | |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:56 - May 16 with 2624 views | gtsb1966 |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:54 - May 16 by BlueBadger |
Should we open a book on WHO'S fans it'll be?
I'll give you evens on Millwall and Leeds(ssuming they come down), 3/1 Birmingham, 100/1 Norwich.
/edit odds altered to reflect the fact that I've done Norwich fans a disservice here.
They might be inbred, delusional and hopelessly tinpot, but they're not overly racist. [Post edited 16 May 2022 18:19]
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:56 - May 16 with 2625 views | Hipsterectomy |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:54 - May 16 by BlueBadger |
Should we open a book on WHO'S fans it'll be?
I'll give you evens on Millwall and Leeds(ssuming they come down), 3/1 Birmingham, 100/1 Norwich.
/edit odds altered to reflect the fact that I've done Norwich fans a disservice here.
They might be inbred, delusional and hopelessly tinpot, but they're not overly racist. [Post edited 16 May 2022 18:19]
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I highly doubt Norwich would with the Fash link to them. Hopefully he’s left alone to play and enjoy his career. | |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:57 - May 16 with 2601 views | BlueBadger |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:56 - May 16 by gtsb1966 |
Why Norwich? |
Outside bet based on their occasional prediliction for a bit of the old racist chanting.
Mind you, if they start badly they'll be too busy directing their ire at the directors who gave them their longest period of participation. | |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 18:08 - May 16 with 2518 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Good on him.
Hopefully a few more men will now come forward and we'll get at least a degree of normalisation. However, as the OP says, it will take some real guts to come out in the type of environment experienced in football. |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 18:13 - May 16 with 2472 views | textbackup |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:57 - May 16 by BlueBadger |
Outside bet based on their occasional prediliction for a bit of the old racist chanting.
Mind you, if they start badly they'll be too busy directing their ire at the directors who gave them their longest period of participation. |
any particular examples of ncfc and racist chanting? might be wrong, but i dont recall reading that?
unless you are talking proper back in the day |  |
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| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 18:17 - May 16 with 2421 views | ChiefXL |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 18:13 - May 16 by textbackup |
any particular examples of ncfc and racist chanting? might be wrong, but i dont recall reading that?
unless you are talking proper back in the day |
And did it happen more, or less recently than our racist chanting at Luton away? |  | | |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 18:25 - May 16 with 2368 views | Fixed_It |
| A young Blackpool player has today announced that he is gay on 17:54 - May 16 by BrentwoodBlagger2 |
Why is this news? I don't care if he is gay or straight and I'm sure most people of average intelligence feel the same way. There are more important things going on at the minute, but good luck to him anyway for advertising this fact. |
It's obviously news because he's the first. And hopefully others will follow. It's not news because anyone is shocked (hopefully). Good luck to the lad. |  |
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