Arsenal players laugh at themselves in anti-homophobia ad

“I can’t change my height.”

Five Arsenal players have taken part in a light-hearted ad to support the campaign to kick homophobia out of football.

Theo Walcott, Mikel Arteta, Santi Cazorla, Olivier Giroud and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain all describe various characteristics that they have and cannot change, any more than a gay person can change their orientation.

Cazorla accepts his height, while Giroud says graciously:

“I can’t change that I am gorgeous.”

The campaign, run by Stonewall, the Gay Football Supporters' Network and Paddy Power, aims to challenge homophobia in football and they are looking for all professional footballers in the UK to support it by wearing rainbow coloured laces over the weekend of September 13/14.