its chicken or egg...

the biggest factor in ending racism was the success of black footballers, it was a long a very difficult road for those players in the 70s and 80s, ultimately its difficult for a crowd to be racist if you hero / best player is black.
Likewise to end homophobia it will take a few players to out themselves, and the first few who do will get a very rough time but will pave the way forthose that follow.

Posted By: dear prudence on August 12th 2009 at 19:59:01

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Homophobia in Football. (NCFC) - songwriter, Aug 12, 18:46:34
- Its not going to change in a jiffy (NCFC) - shoddy, Aug 12, 22:05:48
- You're right, songwriter (NCFC) - BerlinCanary, Aug 12, 19:46:21
  - Fan of the cause not the shell. Pink kits, ironic or not, i think, is making it worse. (n/m) (NCFC) - songwriter, Aug 12, 21:54:10
  - its chicken or egg... (NCFC) - dear prudence, Aug 12, 19:59:01
- it's an ongoing process. I think things are slowly improving on that front (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Aug 12, 18:56:49
  - Totally agree it will never disappear.. I've played football (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Aug 12, 19:08:04
    - Exactly. But if the heroes, Terry, Beckham, Rooney said it was alright...They'd be sheep (n/m) (NCFC) - songwriter, Aug 12, 19:21:47
  - I don't think there's much progress on the homophobia front (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 12, 18:59:07
    - I'm not sure, there certainly isn't much progress (NCFC) - Worzel Scrimmage, Aug 12, 19:06:16

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