Antiseptic, I'm sympathetic to Akermanis's position, but using your own logic, surely it is up to the football club who they are comfortable having play for them. If they are uncomfortable with Aker's position, then under your argument, why can't they discipline him?

CJ, I thought you were going?

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GrahamY: << CJ, I thought you were going? >>

Hi Graham.

I just popped my head back in to politely correct a couple of factual errors, rather than continue the silly argument.

The first was Antiseptic's omission of the lead paragraphs of the article he cited, which negated his claim that the main reason that Akermanis' contract is under threat is because of his poor performance on the field this season. The article clearly says otherwise, as evidenced by the positioning of his performance at the lead of the story, with the homophobia stuff subordinately introduced after the lead.

The second was Antiseptic's gratuitous and erroneous personal insult that I am "scared" of footballers. That's simply untrue, and indeed I would have thought that it constituted "flaming" or "abuse" under your rules.

Dang. I obviously meant to say "his claim that the main reason that Akermanis' contract is under threat is NOT because of his poor performance on the field this season".

Curse the absence of an edit facilty, again.

I see there is a need here for the equivalent of the European Gay Lesbian Sport Federation which advocate things like, "enable and support the coming out of gay and lesbian sports men and women":

http://www.eglsf.info/eglsf-news.php

>> 2nd EGLSF Conference Football Against Homophobia.
More than 30 representatives from gay and lesbian football clubs, LGBT sports and football organizations, supporters’ groups and football alliances from countries all over Europe met in Berlin from 22nd to 23rd May at the 2nd Football against homophobia conference.
The participants presented their various work and initiatives in the struggle against homophobia and for the recognition of LGBT presence in all areas of football and set out to plan future activities on a pan-European level. EGLSF activist Tanja Walther- Ahrens who was responsible for the organization regards the meeting as a further step forward: “It is especially important to get together shareholders from various areas of football. Clubs, players, football associations, supporters’ groups and LGBT organizations inside and outside football alike have to join forces against homophobia.”<<

And to keep updated about homosexuality in top sports, one can be enlightened through following the news here:

http://www.gaysport.info/gaysport-news.php