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

I partly disagree with this.

Footballers are ordinary people like you and me and therefore their opinions on anything have as much value as any. Anyone can be passionate about something regardless of their job, status or wealth.

Whether you choose to value their individual opinion is up to you but to blanket disregard something someone who isn’t an expert in is wrong imo.

You should generally be coming at it the other way and valuing an experts opinion in higher regard.

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

Fully agree with you. Rashford's work in particular showed how public figures can enact real change around bigger issues beyond football.

If anything, Henderson's situation highlights how fine the line is between activisim and virtue signaling.

Its easy to put out a statement in support of something with nothing on the line. If Hendo truly cared, he wouldnt have taken the job.

I have family members that are gay, and I would never get in bed with Saudi as it would destroy my relationship with them. Having said that, Ive never had millions waved in front of my face, so who knows if I would really stick by my morals.