Newcastle United Fan Who Was Banned From Matches Over “Gender Critical” Tweets Prepares to Sue the FA Over “Unlawful” Rainbow Armband Campaign
Barred from matches over ‘gender-critical’ tweets, a Newcastle fan is gearing up for a legal showdown with the FA, claiming its rainbow armband campaign violates its own rules. The Mail has the story.
Linzi Smith, 34, alleged she is preparing to take legal action against the FA over their Rainbow Laces campaign, which shows support to the LGTBQ+ community.
The campaign, which sees players wear rainbow coloured armbands and laces, is entirely voluntary and is a matter of personal choice for teams and players.
Ms. Smith, who has been banned from matches and had her membership revoked by her club until 2026 for her “gender critical” views, has hit out at the sports association.
She claimed that wearing the rainbow accessories endorses the belief that a person can have a gender that differs to their biological sex.
In a letter issues by her lawyers, SinclairsLaw, and seen by the Telegraph, Ms. Smith alleged the FA had acted “unlawfully” by “encouraging, authorising or directing” Premier League players to wear the rainbow colours.
The statement continued to argue that accessories conveying a political message or image were “prohibited” under FA rules.
The Newcastle United fan has now created a fundraising page in a bid to help fund her legal case.
Despite the warning, on Tuesday the footballer penned another message which read “Jesus loves you” on his armband, with the Football Association stating he risked a ban.
Ms. Smith’s legal letter branded the FA’s stance in relation to Guehi and Morsy as “irrational”.
She argued that they “rightly” disapproved of the Crystal Palace captain conveying a religious message, but had “taken the exactly opposite approach” when it came to the allegedly “political” messaging behind the rainbow laces and armbands.
The FA Rainbow Laces campaign was first created in 2013 in collaboration with LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall and the Premier League.
An FA Spokesperson has said: “We believe that football should be for all, and we have supported the Rainbow Laces campaign for over ten years.
“Together with our partners and the leagues across English football, we have helped to promote this inclusive and voluntary campaign to provide allyship to the LGBTQ+ community across all levels of our game.
“We do not consider the campaign to breach any of our rules.”
I suspect I am not alone in feeling increasingly angry and fed up with having so called progressive ideas shoved down my throat while at the same time watching as people who publicly disagree with those ideas being persecuted.
Enough is enough.
I of course doubt the courts will actually provide any justice in this case as they are captures and biased, at least that is how they seem to me.
But I fully support and respect this lady for taking the fight to them. Best of luck to her.
And we still have the idiotic taking a knee at some rounds of matches. I can’t say I noticed many rainbow laces but Leicester had pervert flag corner flags while Ipswich had normal ones.
The UK establishment has long been dominated by very left wing Oxbridge types and slowly but surely since WWII they have transformed Britain into something that isn’t a million miles from Orwell’s dystopian 1984. He did warn us..
I have been listening to an interview with Alison Pearson on Triggernometry. She gave details of the visit to her by Essex Police following a deleted tweet (whatever that is). She explained and discussed the restrictions on free speach, two tier justice and the wokism of the police, amongst other things. While accepting that a lot of this came about under the Tories, who she apears to support, she sought to show her worthiness by telling us she voted for Tony Blair twice.
I found it amazing she would not have associated much of the beginniings of wokery and unfair justice with his constitutional and legislative actions and the establishment of these faults under 14 years of the Tories.
Alison seems a thoughtful, interesting, intelligent lady yet she could not recognise how these problems came to be. Without that understanding no solution will be achieved.
All the best to Linzi on her mission here but I’m not holding out much hope she’s going to get very far, given the state the judicial system is in. We keep hearing ”Woke is dead” but it’s certainly looking alive and kicking from where I’m standing. Why can’t all the players collectively show us their balls and actually quit conforming with this nonsense? Because that would be good and have the most impact, wouldn’t it? The FA can’t punish everyone and there’s strength in unity. The fact that they don’t just shows how complicit they all are with it. Either that or it just comes down to pure cowardice. Do these millionaire players actually stand for anything, do they have principles, or are they just overpaid, over-hyped robo-muppets? It’s another nail in the coffin for the misogynists’ delusional theory that all of this toxic woke tripe is being pushed by women though, such is their obsession with blaming everything on the opposite sex, what with Linzi being female and obviously opposing gender ideology so strongly, but also the FA board of directors seem to be made up of a nice mix of both male and female top brass. I… Read more »
He’s actually married and has three other ( non trans ) kids, but it’s always him I see on the videos, and he has channels on Instagram, TikTok, You Tube, FB, you name it…so he must be raking it in due to all the content and followers they have. Apparently his son ”came out as trans” at six years old, which probably just meant he liked playing with his sister’s Barbies and dressing up, all totally normal at such a young age. But all of this has been encouraged by the parents, hasn’t it? Wouldn’t surprise me if they live in California. I dread to think what the future holds for that young boy in terms of hormone supplementation and surgery, and generally screwing up his health and body. 🙁
I don’t hold out much hope for Linzi’s case here. But Sam Morsy seems to be very clever: by not wearing the rainbow armband, he has made a very clear religious statement, of the sort he’s not supposed to be able to make. I wonder if they would have allowed him to take this stance had he belonged to a different religion.
If not wearing an armband is a religious statement, does that make wearing the armband a religious statement too?
So the FA say they’re “inclusive” except if you’re a Christian or don’t want LGBTQ(add extra letters except C here) constantly rammed down your throat. Got it! Hats off to Linzi Smith for taking a stand, and hoping a great crowd of fellow Newcastle United fans also step up and support her.
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I suspect I am not alone in feeling increasingly angry and fed up with having so called progressive ideas shoved down my throat while at the same time watching as people who publicly disagree with those ideas being persecuted.
Enough is enough.
I of course doubt the courts will actually provide any justice in this case as they are captures and biased, at least that is how they seem to me.
But I fully support and respect this lady for taking the fight to them. Best of luck to her.
And we still have the idiotic taking a knee at some rounds of matches. I can’t say I noticed many rainbow laces but Leicester had pervert flag corner flags while Ipswich had normal ones.
The Rainbow is a covenant between God and man. It is not a symbol for mentally ill perverts.
When I see the no pride flag or rainbow, I think Swastika, and Nazi. Queer Fascism. All supported by the useless toffs at the FA. FO to the FA.
The UK establishment has long been dominated by very left wing Oxbridge types and slowly but surely since WWII they have transformed Britain into something that isn’t a million miles from Orwell’s dystopian 1984. He did warn us..
Think yourself lucky it is only ideas being shoved down your throat, I say.
Slightly off topic.
I have been listening to an interview with Alison Pearson on Triggernometry. She gave details of the visit to her by Essex Police following a deleted tweet (whatever that is). She explained and discussed the restrictions on free speach, two tier justice and the wokism of the police, amongst other things. While accepting that a lot of this came about under the Tories, who she apears to support, she sought to show her worthiness by telling us she voted for Tony Blair twice.
I found it amazing she would not have associated much of the beginniings of wokery and unfair justice with his constitutional and legislative actions and the establishment of these faults under 14 years of the Tories.
Alison seems a thoughtful, interesting, intelligent lady yet she could not recognise how these problems came to be. Without that understanding no solution will be achieved.
All the best to Linzi on her mission here but I’m not holding out much hope she’s going to get very far, given the state the judicial system is in. We keep hearing ”Woke is dead” but it’s certainly looking alive and kicking from where I’m standing. Why can’t all the players collectively show us their balls and actually quit conforming with this nonsense? Because that would be good and have the most impact, wouldn’t it? The FA can’t punish everyone and there’s strength in unity. The fact that they don’t just shows how complicit they all are with it. Either that or it just comes down to pure cowardice. Do these millionaire players actually stand for anything, do they have principles, or are they just overpaid, over-hyped robo-muppets? It’s another nail in the coffin for the misogynists’ delusional theory that all of this toxic woke tripe is being pushed by women though, such is their obsession with blaming everything on the opposite sex, what with Linzi being female and obviously opposing gender ideology so strongly, but also the FA board of directors seem to be made up of a nice mix of both male and female top brass. I… Read more »
That video is horrific. It is a mixture of paedophilia and incest all jumbled together.
That guy needs locking up.
He’s actually married and has three other ( non trans ) kids, but it’s always him I see on the videos, and he has channels on Instagram, TikTok, You Tube, FB, you name it…so he must be raking it in due to all the content and followers they have. Apparently his son ”came out as trans” at six years old, which probably just meant he liked playing with his sister’s Barbies and dressing up, all totally normal at such a young age. But all of this has been encouraged by the parents, hasn’t it? Wouldn’t surprise me if they live in California. I dread to think what the future holds for that young boy in terms of hormone supplementation and surgery, and generally screwing up his health and body. 🙁
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I don’t hold out much hope for Linzi’s case here. But Sam Morsy seems to be very clever: by not wearing the rainbow armband, he has made a very clear religious statement, of the sort he’s not supposed to be able to make. I wonder if they would have allowed him to take this stance had he belonged to a different religion.
If not wearing an armband is a religious statement, does that make wearing the armband a religious statement too?
So the FA say they’re “inclusive” except if you’re a Christian or don’t want LGBTQ(add extra letters except C here) constantly rammed down your throat. Got it! Hats off to Linzi Smith for taking a stand, and hoping a great crowd of fellow Newcastle United fans also step up and support her.