The FA their moral cowardice

Perhaps the greatest role models in England, are the England football team players, especially to the younger, more impressionable members of our society.

Gareth Southgate has set a good example to fans, and to the wider population, because whatever Mr Southgate states, the media take note and print it or repeat it.

The football season 2020 - 2021 was a particularly bad season for on line and on the pitch racial abuse directed at Marcus Rashford, Kyle Walker, Raheem Sterling, Jude Bellingham, Reece James and Tyrone Mings.


GARETH SOUTHGATE SAID THIS .... Our players are role models. And, beyond the confines of the pitch, we must recognise the impact they can have on society. We must give them the confidence to stand up for their teammates and the things that matter to them as people.

"I have never believed that we should just stick to football"

"I know my voice carries weight, not because of who I am but because of the position that I hold. At home, I’m below the kids and the dogs in the pecking order but publicly I am the England men’s football team manager. I have a responsibility to the wider community to use my voice, and so do the players.

"It’s their duty to continue to interact with the public on matters such as equality, inclusivity and racial injustice, while using the power of their voices to help put debates on the table, raise awareness and educate"

Well done to Gareth Southgate and the England football team

Clearly some idiots think its "Left wing" or even "woke" to instill good virtues, sound principles or decency into the impressionable - IT ISENT, its simply teaching people how to be decent human beigns. 

Then we have to consider what are 'good virtues', 'sound principles' and 'decency'. I am sure mine would be different from yours and even Southgate's.
Southgate has no monopoly on the definitions and that is what makes his motives 'woke'. He is using his position to promote his views, he is using his position and that of the footballers to promote those views. We assume that the players think all the definitions are sound or do they agree to ensure their chance of a place in the team. What you are saying is that a player who was a UKIP member would not get a place even if he was the best player around and even if no one else knew exactly what his views were. I thought that was the whole point of having a team picked on merit, you get the best players and then hopefully the best team which is the managers job, and only that.

Then we have to consider what are 'good virtues', 'sound principles' and 'decency'. I am sure mine would be different from yours and even Southgate's.
Southgate has no monopoly on the definitions and that is what makes his motives 'woke'. He is using his position to promote his views, he is using his position and that of the footballers to promote those views. We assume that the players think all the definitions are sound or do they agree to ensure their chance of a place in the team. What you are saying is that a player who was a UKIP member would not get a place even if he was the best player around and even if no one else knew exactly what his views were. I thought that was the whole point of having a team picked on merit, you get the best players and then hopefully the best team which is the managers job, and only that.

Your post is 100% utter nonsense - Southgate spoke out against racist chanting, racist slurs, racist abuse and offensive speech, NONE of which is classed as "woke" as you put it.

Southgate HAS NOT given out or "promoted" his own opinions, he has simply spoken out against the use of highly offensive language, its what teachers do, its what most parents should do, and its what anyone in the public eye should do.

No soccer team anywhere in the UK which is affiliated to the Welsh FA, Scottish FA, Northern Ireland FA or English FA would ever employ the services of any soccer player with racist views, no matter how good a player he or she was.