LGBT issues in Football

[The Corinthian]

If Casillas was British, he would just pretend to be gay for the rest of his life to save himself from embarrassment.

 

[Noot]

Seemed legit enough until the Puyol reply. No chance it's real after seeing that, IMO.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Seemed legit enough until the Puyol reply. No chance it's real after seeing that, IMO.

Why would you post that if intended as a joke. It is in incredibly bad taste.

 

[WeePat]

You're asking as if Casillas is a poster here.
Or maybe he is, how did the tweet get here 4 minutes after it was tweeted? Wtf.

You underestimate Samid’s thread bumping expertise.

 

[moses]

It's still up, which would be odd if it was a hack, unless they did it knowing he'd be offline for a bit.

 

[Solius]

Puyol’s reply has made it very confusing. Will have to wait and see I guess.

 

[Utd heap]

I took it as genuine? Hope it is.

 

[Guy Incognito]

Clearly a hack.

 

[Lay]

He was just denying he was dating Shakira so, not surprised

 

[ForeverRed1]

It’s highly unlikely it’s them and not some 14 year olds who got into their accounts

fabrizio Romano has posted it on his account. Surely he wouldn’t do that without some sort of back up it’s not a joke?

 

[Xoxo]

Obviously a hack, if it was true they would have posted in Instagram also

 

[Oly Francis]

It's still up, which would be odd if it was a hack, unless they did it knowing he'd be offline for a bit.

Unless he's gone off the grid, no way he wouldn't know by now, his cellphone is probably exploding at the moment. Hacked accounts can be hard to recover though.

 

[P-Ro]

According to his Wikipedia page he is in a relationship with Jay Stead from Belfast.

 

[phelans shorts]

fabrizio Romano has posted it on his account. Surely he wouldn’t do that without some sort of back up it’s not a joke?

A) he hasn’t B) why would what that joker says mean anything anyway?

 

[HTG]

Sad state of affairs when people need to discuss wether it’s a joke or not.
Football is such a homophobic community. It really is disappointing and disheartening.

 

[ForeverRed1]

A) he hasn’t B) why would what that joker says mean anything anyway?

He hasn’t what ? Posted it, yes he has.
Because he has a massive following and shouldn’t be posting stuff like that if it isn’t confirmed.

 

[Lay]

He hasn’t what ? Posted it, yes he has.
Because he has a massive following and shouldn’t be posting stuff like that if it isn’t confirmed.

Unless he’s deleted it, I can’t see it neither

 

[phelans shorts]

He hasn’t what ? Posted it, yes he has.
Because he has a massive following and shouldn’t be posting stuff like that if it isn’t confirmed.

Well it isn’t on his Twitter page (his last two posts are Nyland contract renewal at Leipzig and Laporta complaining players didn’t take a paycut). He’s a news aggregator who if he says it’s raining you should look out of your window.

 

[ForeverRed1]

Sad state of affairs when people need to discuss wether it’s a joke or not.
Football is such a homophobic community. It really is disappointing and disheartening.

It’s more the way it’s posted. In football a big name like that coming out as gay along with a fellow World Cup winning professional is pretty big for gay people. you think they would come out like that? I’m not so sure.

 

[ForeverRed1]

Unless he’s deleted it, I can’t see it neither

Check his facebook

 

[Brophs]

According to his Wikipedia page he is in a relationship with Jay Stead from Belfast.

Jay the Gay, as he’s known in the community.

 

[Oly Francis]

Sad state of affairs when people need to discuss wether it’s a joke or not.
Football is such a homophobic community. It really is disappointing and disheartening.

The reactions under the tweets are absolutely appalling. Also, seeing catholic and muslim bigots teaming up under the circumstance when they hate each other the rest of the year is a bit strange to witness.

 

[SirAF]

Well it isn’t on his Twitter page (his last two posts are Nyland contract renewal at Leipzig and Laporta complaining players didn’t take a paycut). He’s a news aggregator who if he says it’s raining you should look out of your window.

It’s on his FB

 

[ForeverRed1]

The reactions under the tweets are absolutely appalling. Also, seeing catholic and muslim bigots teaming up under the circumstance when they hate each other the rest of the year is a bit strange to witness.

thats why I don’t read the comments. Horrible.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

The reactions under the tweets are absolutely appalling. Also, seeing catholic and muslim bigots teaming up under the circumstance when they hate each other the rest of the year is a bit strange to witness.

Unfortunately the reaction is not that surprising.

 

[dannyrhinos89]

It'd be cool if they were in some sort of relationship.

 

[Oly Francis]

According to AS, it's not true and merely a reaction to rumors about his private life. Very very bad taste.

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[HTG]

The reactions under the tweets are absolutely appalling. Also, seeing catholic and muslim bigots teaming up under the circumstance when they hate each other the rest of the year is a bit strange to witness.

And every time these discussions flare up, you will have people asking why they even need to announce it, as it’s obviously not a big thing anymore and nobody cares anyway. Well yeah, they do care. Sadly enough.
I would never come out as a pro footballer. The whole community is still filled with disgusting amounts of hatred towards anything and anyone queer.

 

[friendlytramp]

Why are people suggesting this isn’t genuine?

 

[Oly Francis]

And every time these discussions flare up, you will have people asking why they even need to announce it, as it’s obviously not a big thing anymore and nobody cares anyway. Well yeah, they do care. Sadly enough.
I would never come out as a pro footballer. The whole community is still filled with disgusting amounts of hatred towards anything and anyone queer.

Yeah, as if these comments would fool anyone. Typical reaction from homophobs trying to hide it : "why do we care?" "we don't care, we don't dance around annoucing we're straight" blabla. Disgusting.

 

[phelans shorts]

Why are people suggesting this isn’t genuine?

Did you miss the Puyol reply?

 

[Cascarino]

Why are people suggesting this isn’t genuine?

Because it's almost definitely not. You have Puyol commenting underneath telling him to share thee love with the world. Bunch of other high profile users have been hacked too. Just a shit prank by some assholes

 

[HTG]

Why are people suggesting this isn’t genuine?

Because there are enough homophobic idiots out there who still think turning the lifelong struggle for acceptance by anyone in the queer community into a bad joke, is the pinnacle of comedy. So it might actually be a joke.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Year 6 humour from these dickheads.

 

[Oly Francis]

Because it's almost definitely not. You have Puyol commenting underneath telling him to share thee love with the world. Bunch of other high profile users have been hacked too. Just a shit prank by some assholes

Did he deny it on one of his other social media? Because it's unlikely they hacked all of them.

 

[phelans shorts]

Did he deny it on one of his other social media? Because it's unlikely they hacked all of them.

He’s not posted it on any of the others (another sign it’s fake, because any major player coming out would be massively promoted on all SM channels)

 

[hodgey123]

Spain as a culture is still quite plagued by racism so wouldn't be surprised if it is still more homophobic than other countries and this type of joke seemed fine to Casillas and Puyol.

 

[HTG]

Spain as a culture is still quite plagued by racism so wouldn't be surprised if it is still more homophobic than other countries and this type of joke seemed fine to Casillas and Puyol.

You could make the exact same statement about every other country in the world and it would just be as accurate.

 

[Oly Francis]

He’s not posted it on any of the others (another sign it’s fake, because any major player coming out would be massively promoted on all SM channels)

I don't think so, it could have been an impulsive tweet followed by a social media blackout. The tweet is blowing up all over the workd and it's been up for an hour. The likeliness of it being true without any other communication on his end increases every minute.

 

[phelans shorts]

I don't think so, it could have been an impulsive tweet followed by a social media blackout. The tweet is blowing up all over the workd and it's been up for an hour. The likeliness of it being true without any other communication on his end increases every minute.

The tweet has been deleted