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I went to a Millwall game a couple of months ago as I needed to know first hand if it was as bad as it's made out and they were playing Boro who are probably the only team I could support Millwall against. I was surprised by how little racism I heard and how much homophobia I did. That's Millwall though so hardly a representative of football on a whole, though maybe it is really.
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I met a really nice Millwall fan in a pub some years back, who assured me they were a changed club and there was no issue with racism anymore. The next day, I went on one of their message boards to see, and it was like fucking Stormfront. As I'd had to register to see it, I left a message telling them they were racist cunts. Turns out they were doxxing racist cunts - they published my full real name. Nothing came of it, but still.
My mate's a lifelong Millwall season ticket holder who gave it up a couple of years ago as he was sick of hearing the abuse. Mind you, he's decided he wants to be a West Ham fan now, so go figure...
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Will it though? Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think the world is (largely) over that. I haven't seen it reported that there's been any backlash to his coming out neither from opposing fans or any 'no poofs in our club' response from any unreconstructed Blackpool fans. I'm only at games a few times a season, but don't get the impression that there's much appetite for homophobic abuse anymore.
I'm hopeful that any feared targeting will be a non-event, but maybe that's just stupidly naive. Are homophobic chants still made at Brighton fans?
That aside, agree that he'll now be under a lot of pressure at a really young age. Would like to see a couple of others take his lead now that the genie's out of the bottle, so he won't be wearing the Only Gay in the League tag for long.