The dismal moral judgements just kept on coming on Wednesday, with a public defenestration facing those individuals who, for reasons which are no one else’s business, do not wish to walk onto a football field wearing a rainbow message.
Noussair Mazraoui of Manchester United is a practicing Muslim who was reluctant to champion a LGBTQ cause with which his religion does not cohere. So he let it be known, before Sunday’s game against Everton, that a new piece of rainbow-branded Adidas merchandise – a ‘walk-on jacket’, as they call it – was not for him.