adexkola
Doesn't understand sportswashing.
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Again this begs a wider question with regards to who we have our children looking up to. But that's another conversation so.As I said above, it depends on the capacity of their role. I don’t think a role where Goodwillie is cheered on and looked up to by children / working with females is appropriate when they’ve had complete disregard for one with no remorse. If there is a role where they can have a profession without that then they can go ahead. Clearly multiple women have shown they feel uncomfortable working with him, as do some men.
I think with regards to being uncomfortable with working with him, that's a valid practical reason for an employer deciding not to hire someone. But we are talking about the ethics here. Because theoretically, should anyone be comfortable working with this fella? So does he just go on the dole then, isolated from society for the rest of his life?
Fair enough on the role model part, I'm arguing how it should be. You're not special because you kick a ball, is the overriding message for me from the horrific news of the last week, and going back further than that. Once the novelty gets stripped away it becomes easier for me to justify letting people continue in their professions as long as they have paid their debt to society. Ambassador status, being connected to a club, that shit should be earned, not granted.They’re not just paid to play football. That’s the primary reason, but there are obviously other factors that are secondary. They’re ambassadors for their club, they represent them on and off the field and their conduct interferes with sponsorships / players at the club on both the male and female side. You know as well as I do that footballers are role models and it’s daft to try and argue people don’t see them as one. I’m not saying that people should, or that they automatically are when they become a footballer and it’s a mantle they have to take up, but it’s what happens. Maybe that’s on society / football culture to shift too, aswell as not wanting to have rapists etc. associated with it.