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Jordan Henderson's Saudi Arabia move felt like a "slap in the face" following his support of the LGBTQ+ community, says UK's only openly gay active male professional footballer Jake Daniels (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by Tim-Sanchez@alien.top to c/main@soccer.forum

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[–] Huge-Celebration5192@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just goes to show pro athletes should not get involved with causes like this.

Loads of players have gone to Saudi and Henderson takes as much flack as the rest of them put together.

If he keeps his mouth shut and doesn’t get involved with LBGT causes he would have been just another player getting a massive end of career payday.

[–] EdwardBigby@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Horrible take. Surely the conclusion should be that when athletes get involved in social causes, they shouldn't completely betray them. It's not that hard an ask.

[–] footyfan888@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

FR. It's good that they want to stand for things and use their platform for good if that feels right for them.

Obviously then people want you to stick to it if not it looks like all they were doing is virtue signalling / PR image curation.

[–] Berserkerzoro@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

It's the same thing as the person above said.

[–] retr0grade77@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

His interview just made matters worse. He’s a dumb, deluded egocentric.