Feels like we need a thread to look into how much football and various actors around the game are trying to make a difference (and of course in what ways they are failing).
This was brought home for me through the way that there are clearly (and have always been) vehemently and openly racist groups among fans, and you can see that there is a lot of unreconstructed nasty shit in the world of football fans. My own club is certainly not at the forefront of positive things here, and there is a lot of work that needs to be done. There were people in Wednesday shirts at the anti BLM demos in London in June.
Which is why this initiative started by a group of prominent Wednesday fans is, to me, so important. Predictably the response on social media has varied from positive to ignorant to vile. Is thjis kind of thing happening elsewhere too. Can football fans make an actual positive difference?
This was brought home for me through the way that there are clearly (and have always been) vehemently and openly racist groups among fans, and you can see that there is a lot of unreconstructed nasty shit in the world of football fans. My own club is certainly not at the forefront of positive things here, and there is a lot of work that needs to be done. There were people in Wednesday shirts at the anti BLM demos in London in June.
Which is why this initiative started by a group of prominent Wednesday fans is, to me, so important. Predictably the response on social media has varied from positive to ignorant to vile. Is thjis kind of thing happening elsewhere too. Can football fans make an actual positive difference?
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