Pep Guardiola caught out by his double standards over human rights

For followers of football who believe in the sport as a force for good the muddles of the Football Association chief executive, Martin Glenn, over Pep Guardiola’s yellow ribbon have made for a somewhat dispiriting fortnight. Glenn, having insisted through the FA’s self-righteous campaign to display the poppy on England shirts that he could negotiate fine distinctions between war remembrance and political symbols, has now revealed profound, brain-fading ignorance of the world outside Wembley.

Insisting that Guardiola’s ribbon in support of jailed Catalan independence leaders is political and therefore outlawed, then asked for more examples of divisive symbols, Glenn lumped together the Star of David, hammer and sickle and the swastika – thereby breaking what might be termed the Ken Livingstone rule that avoiding mentioning the Nazis is rarely a bad idea.


Source : foxnews