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Amid the distraction of FIFA threatening European players with yellow cards if they wore One Love armbands was the extraordinary bravery of a team whose protest went far beyond the risk of a yellow card

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“Is it brave to talk about stuff nobody in my profession talks about? No, I don’t think it is….It shouldn’t matter what people are…. That’s the way I am, it’s the way I was brought up and it’s the way I’ll always be.”

Thus spoke David Beckham about being an ally to queerness in an interview with Attitude, the gay men’s lifestyle mag, in 2002, quite some time before rainbow laces and One Love armbands.