Marc Guehi and Crystal Palace will be formally reprimanded by the FA after the player wrote “I love Jesus” on his rainbow captain’s armband because of a ban on “religious and political images”. The Mail has more.
The player and club had faced a charge, with FIFA and FA rules banning “any political, religious or personal slogans, statements or images” on players’ equipment, which includes armbands.
However, bosses at the FA have instead decided to remind Guehi and Palace of those regulations, rather than take further action.
Mail Sport also understands that Ipswich captain Sam Morsy will not be punished after refusing to wear the armband, part of a campaign supporting the LGBTQ+ community, because of his religious beliefs.
As his refusal was not a rule breach – unlike Guehi’s message – the matter is deemed to be one for the club, rather than governing bodies.
Morsy, 33, is a British-born midfielder who plays for Egypt and is a practising Muslim. He was the only one of 20 captains in the Premier League not to wear the armband.
A spokesperson for national LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall did not condemn the actions of either player.
He said: “It has been incredible to see so many football teams at all levels support our Rainbow Laces campaign to make sport safer and more inclusive for all. When we see clubs show their support for LGBTQ+ inclusion, it helps people feel safe and welcome both on and off the pitch.
“It is up to individuals to choose if and how they show their support for LGBTQ+ inclusion in sport.”
Guehi is a devout Christian and previously spoke about how his faith plays a major role in his career.
Speaking to the Athletic, he said: “I’ve grown up loving God and when I have had the chance I still go to church with my family, and my faith is definitely a big part of my life.
“Faith is everything that I’m involved with, really; even in football, where I’m trying to be a role model and show God’s graciousness and God’s glory through my life.”
Guehi comes from a religious household, with his father, John, being a church minister. In fact, his role with the church caused a scheduling drama during the Euros, after he took a service at a church in Lewisham on the day of England’s clash against Serbia.
Guehi admitted that “God comes first” and that he expected his father to be at the service rather than his match.
Guehi admitted: “Usually God comes first. I’d expect him to be at church but he could turn up, I don’t know. I’ll have to message him later to ask.”
First launched in 2013, the Rainbow Laces campaign sees clubs use rainbow corner flags, while captains wear rainbow armbands as well as laces. The occasion was almost universally observed, save for the Ipswich skipper.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Guehi risks a ban after doubling down by writing the words “Jesus loves You” on his armband for Tuesday’s match against Ipswich Town. His church minister father has accused the FA of double standards, telling the Mail:
The FA is happy for the crowd to sing God Save The King when England plays, which mentions God and religion. And it is happy to have the religious hymn Abide With Me during the cup final. And yet it has a go at my son for expressing his beliefs. Where is the sense in that? What exactly has he done wrong?
This country is a Christian country, and we are reminded of that when we go into public buildings that have the royal coat of arms which has the words Dieu et mon droit [God and my right]. I back my son for what he did. He’s my son and, of course, I stand with him. I don’t see anything wrong in the message that was on his armband, do you? I haven’t had a chance to speak with him yet about it.
I am a church minister and a devout Christian, and so is Marc. He didn’t refuse to wear the rainbow armband, so where is the problem? Morsy refused to wear the armband, but my son didn’t, he wore it.
He added that his son had been trying to convey a message of: “You gave me the armband. As a Christian, I don’t believe in your cause, but I will put it on.”
Stop Press 2: In the Times, Martin Samuel points out that the Rainbow Laces campaign likes to think it’s all about ‘inclusion’. Why, then, are its supporters so intend on singling out and ostracising those who disagree with it?
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https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/svg/25fe.svgOlaf Scholz, who succeeded Angela Merkel as chancellor on December 8, pledged [in a telephone call with China’s President Xi Jinping] to strengthen economic ties with China, but he failed to mention human rights or the destruction of democracy in Hong Kong
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Can a leopard change its spots? Not if it’s a German one.
H. Essame, then serving as adjutant in an infantry regiment in 1918, wrote in his book “The Battle for Europe 1918”, on the day the armistice was arranged “It would all have to be done again. The Boche were like rhubarb; cover up a plant with concrete and it would in the end break through”.
Not much difference, except the gaps in between are longer.
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
Well, good luck, Eric. I’m off to hit the toon, going to lick and touch and breathe on all kinds of public surfaces tonight, to spread the bloody-mindedness.
Come on, what did you expect… It’s truly a sad day when the “land of the free” no longer applies. Hopefully England will show you how it’s done in 2022.
I admire your optimism. The government must be devastated now that the omicron is looking like a damp squid. Well, there’s still climate change and Russia in the works to help get the job done.
The US is “the land of the fee and home to the slave”.
I like that. Gonna nick it.
When they talk about Public-Private Partnerships, they are talking about full-on Communism. What they mean is that publicly elected government officials and the boards of private corporations merge into one in regards to the running of the country.
The boards of large corporations are astute, whilst elected officials tend to be egotistical and not always very bright. And easily walked into financial difficulties or photographed in compromising positions or situations.
Thus, the Public-Private Partnership results in unelected corporation CEOs and board members running the country, whilst the elected government officials do nothing more than pose for campers and issue scripted soundbites.
Just like back in the day in the Soviet Union.
Sounds more like Mussolin’s definition of Fascism to me, but I won’t quibble. A boot stomping on the face is still a boot stomping on the face.
There’s enough vaccine in that syringe in the photo to vax the whole world.
We’re not supposed to look at New York’s
motherboardcityscape like that…They’re only making things worse.
See this:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-numbers-killed-by-these-vaccines-is-much-worse-than-what-we-thought-dr-sucharit-bhakdi-mike-yeadon/5765883
Gut wrenching.
I am currently trying, from a distance, to convince my 25yo daughter not to get ‘her’ booster; the result is mostly silence, as it was when I forwarded articles to persuade her not to have the first two. Which she did and didn’t tell me, just let me carry on.
We can tell people, as Mike says, but many simply do not wish to listen, and it takes its toll on us.
Shame it’s too late to be sending Christmas cards.
Yup. They’re grown, they have to make their own mistakes. Let us hope they learn the lesson that Government and medical authority are not worthy of blind trust. And not too painfully.
Ditto with my son
I deal with my mother in the same way, only she’s trying to convince me to take it. There’s no room for argument, reason or actual evidence, they even insisted the side effects from the first two were all in my mind. No point saying anything.
I expect a similar sort of message when Bozo has sobered up from his New Year partying. It’s the defiant ones – us – next.
A snippet:-
“The ZOE Covid Study also found that there were 78,748 new daily symptomatic
cases in the vaccinated population – those with at least two doses – across the UK,
up 40pc from 56,346 last week.”
We need to move beyond defiance, and establish that he has no authority over us: https://ourdecisiontoo.com/Issue/there-s-nothing-left-to-do-but-go-our-separate-ways/320/
Lived in NYC in the late aughts and again in late teens, and can only report seeing it over that period become an outrageously expensive, third-world, strangely self-regarding authoritarian dystopia. Even before Covid, sensible people were exiting for better pastures. With the recent pull of Florida etc, I cant imagine the utter stupidity of those that remain. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/09/05/new-yorkers-are-leaving-the-city-in-droves-heres-why-theyre-moving-and-where-theyre-going/
New Yorkers are fortunate that they have the right to move to other states. Most of us, in the UK, have no similar option. So, we need, collectively, to claim our share of this once great (OK, sort of passable) land.
https://ourdecisiontoo.com/Issue/there-s-nothing-left-to-do-but-go-our-separate-ways/320/
Yes, I have a close relative who got out a few years ago, now lovin’South
Carolina. The politics in NY state are unbearably depressing, and there is a big social spend, which means rates on houses are really high, and this hits the blue collars especially hard. When they retire, they have to get out because it is unaffordable on a fixed income – and house prices are kept down by this too.
I received an email this week from Virgin Atlantic to say their winter sale was now on. Normally, I’d splash the cash for a trip to New York, but New York doesn’t seem particularly habitable these days.
What was starting to turn me off was the bright idea most hotels had bought into by 2019 whereby you’d book a room, and then find that bike-hire or yoga classes had been included as a mandatory charge. It was starting to become comical as to how creative hotels had become at thinking up mandatory charges. I’d a feeling it wasn’t going to end well for New York’s hotels.
NYC is dead.
For confirmation, look up any given video by (the invaluable) Louis Rossman spanning the last two years.
Damned shame, too – probably the only place on earth in which I actually felt “at home”.
I used to go there on business in the early Eighties. Brought up on a diet of Kojak and earlier cop films and TV, I was gratified on my first visit to see the steam billowing up through numerous gratings, along with a fellow waving a pistol and running amongst the traffic. As an Englishman, I wasn’t too happy to find that the hotel my secretary had booked, The Halloran House, was NORAID/ IRA-friendly. I didn’t linger in the bar when the “rebel” singing began.
Lived literally in Times Square, next to the Grey Lady herself, ’round about the same era – the immortal Ed Koch was still Hizzoner at the time.
Sleazy.
Loud.
Crime-ridden.
Vibrant.
…I loved it.
Totally concur, his videos about NY commercial Real Estate, etc have been incredibly enlightening.
“We know businesses share our goal of keeping their staff and their clients safe and their doors open”
What is it that this numbskull does not get? It’s a virus that will seriously affect less than 1% and a large share of those will be retired or already too poorly to work.
“To put it simply, Covid is bad for business and vaccination ensures not just health but also a healthy economy.”
Covid has never been bad for business, only the ridiculously ineffective and damaging policies to mitigate it.
As for vaccinations ensuring health – they don’t stop infection, don’t stop transmission, and supposedly wear off within a few months. The apparent solution to this is a perpetual cycle of booster shots despite no medium- or long-term data to validate safety. And that’s before we get on to the current VAERS figures. This guy is seriously deranged if this is his definition of ensuring health for the individual and the economy.
It is obvious these politicians are commies and the scamdemic is just a means to an end.
New guy Eric Adams has already hopped aboard the ‘plant-based diet’ bandwagon, too; as if New York’s restaurants haven’t suffered enough.
Keeping’safe’ from nothing, or even a cold, must be cost effective for them, somehow, because they don’t put any effort into real medical conditions.
Omicron outbreak at polar research station.
“The Omicron outbreak happened despite all staff passing multiple PCR tests, quarantining and living in one of the most remote places in the world.”
“All 25 researchers were fully vaccinated and one had a booster shot.”
Self-fulfilling pandemic of the vaccinated.
It supports the hypothesis that viruses may hang around in the body and only become a nuisance if the immune system is below par, e.g. if vitamin D is too low. One doctor worked on this all his life, yet he’s almost forgotten. His findings were ‘inconvenient’ to the establishment
http://www.americanfeverbook.com/journal/day-83-6-hope-simpson-sheds-light-on-flu.html
I don’t agree in this instance, although I do think his work is legitimate. Omicron is another part of the scam being perpetuated by the jabs and fake tests in my opinion.
Dr Bhakdi’s recent video should interest you. Strong evidence the covid jabs are destroying people’s immunological defences against sleeping/dormant pathogens like tuberculosis, which, similar to Hope-Simpson’s influenza theory, are then able to opportunistically take advantage of the person’s weakened state.
The common view is that virus/pathogens are invaders from the outside, and modern virology thrives on this idea, but the opposite is often true, the designers of the covid jabs know this too and are sinisterly exploiting it.
Yo0u should look at the bigger pcture. The very fact that the United States is being driven in factionalism and ghettoisation obviously doesn’t serve the interests of that country. But the mind rot has been going on for decades this is just the manifestation. Political remedies are ridiculous. You might as well ask a malfunctioning android to work on his chakras.
They really have destroyed these places. I suppose critics would argue that their destruction was written into their architecture. The coming force is far far worse than what went before. I think we as an island nation might be able to fight it. But justice deferred is justice denied. Every day lots of clever young men and women commit suicide because they see no future. We have a real sense of urgency.
New York, is on a serious downward spiral. So many leaving the state.
I wonder what all those GIs who fought against fascism would make of this woke buffoon!