Donal Og Cusack, the goalkeeper of the Cork hurling team has "came out" in the Irish Media today and it has sparked fierce debate in the Emerald Isle. Reporting about it on the BBC website, BBC Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson ends his screed with the following:
"Apart from some homophobic text messages sent to radio stations, the overwhelming reaction to Cusack's announcement has been positive.
However, in some ways, the biggest test could be the opposition crowd's reaction the next time he runs out on the pitch for Cork.
In most sports across the world, rival fans are not renowned for their open-mindedness. "
This really reinforced a discussion I had at the Aberdeen match yesterday with two of the followers to this blog. At Scottish Football matches you are bombarded with messages on bigotry, racism, homophobia, in fact an "ism" or "phobia" you can think of.
The media and administrator's label for sports fans and in particular football fans, is they are all narrow minded brain dead scum who require to be battered into submission by "on message" information to show them how thick and bigoted they are.
The people who "run" football in our country have a simple maxim for the average football fan: "you are stupid and gullible, we will treat you with utter contempt, now give us your money and keep quiet."
In these people's minds sport's fans read the Sun and Sport, watch "celebrity Jordan and Peter Big Brother can't cook on ice" and go out and batter pensioners and ethnic minorities of a weekend, whilst "binge drinking"..........
It really is an insult to the vast majority of football fans. Of course there are people who watch football who you can label as above, but it's the same for all sectors of society.
Here's hoping the fans of one of the oldest sports in the world confound the media's perceptions and give Donal a rousing reception when he minds the net again for Cork, give him a ribbing if he makes a mistake and then have a pint of the black stuff at the end of the game with him and discuss the merits of Joyce, Shaw and Beckett. Mark Simpson might be aghast to know this thick as pig shit football fan has read Ulysses - didn't understand a word of it........... :o)
Music tonight is You're the Devil in Disguise by Elvis. A less well known track, it's one of the few 7" singles my mum and dad had from the King. I played it to death as a kid. Still love it now. Listen to the drums in the backing track to the chorus, sublime.
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