It shouldn’t.
The whole bend the knee and the rainbow armband is meaningless. Not when there’s no difference in the ground level.
Now please don’t come after me.
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Maybe meaningless to you, having some visible representation is useful.
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Not in the larger picture when the message isn’t being filtered down effectively.
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He wore the rainbow armbands but wrote ‘I love Jesus’ on it one time and then the next ‘Jesus loves you’. Religious messaging on your kit is against FA rules but he got away with a warning.
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I personally feel that Guehi is happy to run down his contract if Palace price him out of a move to a club challenging for silverware (eg us). Equally, I feel that the club is happy to wait to get him on a free next year depending on his own fitness and form, and what other options might then be available.
I certainly hope that doesn’t mean we don’t get someone in at CB this window though. We definitely need an extra body in there. Maybe it’s Leoni? If so, he’s incredibly raw.
I’d prefer perhaps a loan for additional cover. Someone like Militao or Lucas Hernandez. Experienced players who find themselves on the fringes or, in Militao’s case, further down the pecking order as they return from injury.
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No one should be forced to wear the rainbow armband or anything rainbow related on them if they don’t want to. Stop pushing this crap down our throats. If you want to support anything rainbow related, awesome!! If you don’t want to support it, awesome! Move along. Just play futbol.
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Too a degree yes, having visible representation is useful, but it alone is not enough. More needs to be done to follow up which is one of the key reasons that taking the knee has lost it’s meaning, there was no plan to follow it up with any sort of meaningful plan.
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Who is forcing anything down your throat.
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Agreed. I don’t mind at all putting off signing Guehi until next summer but that might be to replace Konate if he doesn’t sign a new deal or maybe Gomez. So no need to keep the space clear in the squad.
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Anyway back to football. People clambering for him. What’s the response after Saturday when he gets turned inside out and ripped a new one by Wirtz and Ekitike?
I think most people are just clamoring for a central defender over Guehi in particular or liking an extra homegrown player but if he is our defense, then we don’t have to worry if he is weak against Wirtz and Ekitike!
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Someone forcing something down your throat as well.
Very odd term all things considered.
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Interestingly enough the ‘Jesus loves you’ written on the armband could be taken as forcing a view onto others as well and unlike with rainbow armbands, I’ve met a lot of similar Christians on the street that stop me to preach.
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Also in the context of a premier league football game against Arsenal, the ‘I love Jesus’ line may in fact be considered an actual lived expression of rainbow in action.
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Not even Arsenal fans love that Jesus.
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I wonder if ‘Bin off Jesus’ would sell well?
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exactly. mere symbolism for the sake of it is meaningless.
Except here we all are, knowing what the rainbow badge stands for and seeing how it elicits a certain type of reaction in a certain type of person.
Not everything needs to change the world, sometimes it’s just about acknowledging and showing acceptance.
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If you cannot entirely solve a societal problem all by yourself then you should do absolutely nothing is a surprisingly common argument one that is so lacking in substance.
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