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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)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This isn't generally true of footballers, lots of them come from normal working class families and have an idea of what life is like for average people.

See Marcus Rashford for one, he is so passionate about tacking poverty because he lived through it, and he isn't an anomaly, there are so many footballers that grew up in rough circumstances past and present.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand they've pretty much all been in professional football from their teens and not had to deal with any of these things in adult life first hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And that's why I said they have an idea of what life is like for the average person i.e. their parents and families. which is a lot more than what the original commenter was giving them credit for.