Top premiership clubsides have distanced themslves from the gay -rights awarenes campaign this weekend. English premier league players were to lace their boots with a rainbow coloured bootlaces in a campaign against homophobia in football.
The clubsides were reported to have been infuriated by the manner their player are being forced into the campaign by the organisers of the campaign, betting company paddy power and gay right charity Stonewall. The clubs said that the organisers did not consult them before dispatching the boot laces to them. They said they were informed only when the lace came to their premises.
The awareness campaign lauched this week aims at eradicating homophobia in football.
Clubs like Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham have openly decleard that they would boycott the initiative due to lack of organisation on the part of the organisers.
For this lack of organisation and other reasons, some other clubsides are threatening to go the way of Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham while others are leaving the decision in the hands of their players.
As it stands, only Everton is ready to wear the laces in their next game.
After inter- club discussion yesterday, majority or the clubs took the decision not to fully back the scheme.
Reasons given by some clubs was that they have been in contract with other betting companies and that wearing the laces could go against some players' religious beliefs, given their views towards homosexuality.
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