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Bet365 blocks Steven Caulker from a broadcasting job due to his history talking about gambling addition (www.linkedin.com)

submitted 10 months ago by backtothefuckyeah@alien.top to c/main@soccer.forum

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[–] Historical_Owl_1635@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

People often say to me that it's great players can now open up about their struggles.

Can they really? I certainly wouldn't encourage it

I’d honestly say the exact same about mental health. When a player opens up everybody will praise them for their bravery and honesty in the moment.

But the minute a discussion about something like being captain/crucial penalties comes up you can guarantee they’ll be a lot of people questioning wether they’re mentally strong enough.

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

You can also say the same about any support for equality. Look at Hendo, shit that he went to Saudi which somewhat goes against his support, but at least he came out and talked about stuff in the first place, it doesn't remove the fact that he supports lgbtq+ equality, isn't homophobic, and is inclusive. There's countless high profile players who have never made a statement either way on lgbtq+ equality etc and could just be homophobic, they don't get jumped on for going to Saudi though. I'd rather have people speaking in the first place and for that reason I'll always defend Hendo (somewhat, the way he's dealt with it has been a bit shit).

But to get to the point no young players going to look at this and think, yeah it's really worth speaking up for what I believe in, incase it goes south. And that's all because of how everyone has treated Jordan.

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