| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces 23:24 - Aug 29 with 1095 views | urbanpenguin |
Because he wasn't a homophobe. Better than that, he was an ally.
“It was back in 2019 when, by chance, I unearthed an intriguing secret. On the very day Alf Ramsey was appointed manager, in August 1955, the Ipswich Town board discussed what to do about a promising young player in danger of being prosecuted for homosexual behaviour."
“During the next 12 months Alf Ramsey would save this player’s career and he, in return, became pivotal to Alf winning three different league titles. That story, like many others in Alf’s life, has never been told. The deeper I dug, the more I realised Alf’s whole biography needed a rewrite.
“Alf delivered, decades ahead of countless other managers, what human rights campaigners have always requested – equal opportunity, unclouded by prejudice around characteristics irrelevant to a profession’s performance.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sir-alf-ramsey-50-years-35805955 |  | | |  |
| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces on 23:59 - Aug 29 with 860 views | urbanpenguin |
Imagine downvoting this, 92 Laces. Imagine thinking, "you know, i used to like Sir Alf, the things he did for Ipswich and football, but now I know he stood up for human rights and an individual's circumstances, nah, not so sure." We see you. | | | |
| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces on 00:08 - Aug 30 with 804 views | J2BLUE |
| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces on 23:59 - Aug 29 by urbanpenguin |
Imagine downvoting this, 92 Laces. Imagine thinking, "you know, i used to like Sir Alf, the things he did for Ipswich and football, but now I know he stood up for human rights and an individual's circumstances, nah, not so sure." We see you. |
To be honest I find this absolutely disgusting.
I've never seen 92_Laces downvote anyone else before. I thought he was my own personal stalker and that we had something special. I feel used. |  |
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| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces on 00:12 - Aug 30 with 761 views | SE1blue |
| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces on 00:08 - Aug 30 by J2BLUE |
To be honest I find this absolutely disgusting.
I've never seen 92_Laces downvote anyone else before. I thought he was my own personal stalker and that we had something special. I feel used. |
I hate to break it to you but 92_Laces has gone down on me more times than Nigerian Bitcoin. |  |
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| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces on 07:00 - Aug 30 with 310 views | Steve_M |
I want to upvote this twice, once for the main point and once for the cheesy photos of Grant. |  |
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| Sir Alf would have been totally OK with rainbow laces on 07:23 - Aug 30 with 226 views | Swansea_Blue |
What a legend. And this is why we should always stand against any discrimination. People have had to fight against draconian laws to just be allowed to be who they are. The only “gross indecency” is that it took so long to have the law changed and that some knuckle draggers think it’s ok to abuse people on the basis of things we have no control over (sexuality, colour of our skin, sex, where we were born, etc). |  |
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