“Homophobia isn’t on a sliding scale - it’s either hateful and homophobic or it isn’t. This is firmly on the side of being hateful and homophobic.”
There are only a couple of topics in soccer that you’re just asking for trouble by broaching. One of them is promotion and relegation in the United States, the other is a goal kick chant that started in Mexico and has made its way across the border (for reasons that should be obvious, we are not printing a homophobic slur regardless of what language it’s in). The latter is a far more important and urgent matter than discussing complex economic and legal theories, regardless of what a very vocal contingent may have you believe.