Brighton and Hove Albion FC has banned fan Roger Wade for five years – for wearing a Palestine shirt.
Brighton FC: come on – seriously?
Initially the club gave Wade a five-game ban in August for “failing to comply with stewards’ requests,” with no detail given beyond his “behaviour outside the stadium.” But Wade says that:
The truth is, [the issue began] when I removed my jacket [and] revealed a Palestine shirt.
When I challenged the ban, they extended it to 5 years, claiming I must “protect the good name of the Club.”
The hypocrisy is clear: • Players wear yellow & blue kits for Ukraine
• They take the knee against racism
• They hold minutes of silence for others
But I cannot wear a Palestine shirt in solidarity with the victims of genocide.
This is not justice. This is silencing. I will be appealing to the Independent Football Ombudsman and the Premier League.
This is a sad day for the club I love.
At the time of his initial ban Wade, who founded the ‘Boxpark‘ food and drink complexes in Shoreditch and Croydon, said:
The Premier League encourages us to stand up against racism, but what about standing against the killing of 50,000 civilians in Gaza, mostly women and children?
This is blatant discrimination. Football should be about inclusion, diversity and solidarity, not silencing fans for peacefully showing who they stand with.
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By Skwawkbox
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Brighton clearly doesn’t give a fuck about their reputation. Nazi sympathizers.
Who cares? It’s just soccer. Boycott FIFA and move on with your lives already, for fucks sakes.
(Seriously, sports fans make me irrationally angry. You get all worked up over people passing a fucking ball around. That’s basically what every sport boils down to. Passing balls. Grow the fuck up and find something fun to do instead.)
I’m not a sports fan, but I can appreciate the hypocrisy in this club’s actions. Every time people are muzzled for speaking out against hate and genocide, it hurts all of us - not just sports fans. Wake the f up.
You clearly spend all your time on cancer research or making cold fusion work, so how do you find time to criticize sports fans on the electronic equivalent of old people yapping at each other sitting around a table at a coffee shop?
How very dare anyone like something I don’t!
And what has FIFA got to do with it?
Thank you for your reply.
Without FIFA, there would be no football, which means no controversies like this one, forcing people to actually find something better to do with their time.
Without FIFA, there would be no football
You are fucking clueless. Do you think you could also prohibit alcohol so people can be more productive?
My god. Not displacement of poor people, human trafficking or anything else.
