As captain Harry Kane abandons his promise to wear the One Love rainbow armband, Alex Scott proudly wore hers pitch side.
Today, England joined six other countries announcing they would not wear the OneLove rainbow armband, which shows support for the LGBTQ+ community, during FIFA World Cup games. Announced just three hours before
‘I've had conversations about “I should be staying at home, I should be boycotting” and I thought long and hard about it,’ she continued. ‘I think that for me personally would have been the easy option. I love my job and when I think about it sitting here and having the harder conversations and it's bigger isn't it? We're talking about migrant workers; we're talking about the LGBT+ community we're talking about women's rights.
‘We were prepared to pay fines that would normally apply to breaches of kit regulations and had a strong commitment to wearing the armband,’ the statement continued. ‘However, we cannot put our players in the situation where they might be booked or even forced to leave the field of play.
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