Over the past year, several players from different clubs have been charged with sexual violence. There is no process for how these cases are dealt with, and no recognition of the culture that contributes to gender-based violence.
It's time for the Premier League and the Football Association to break the silence, take accountability and change the culture on gender-based violence in football, and enforce a policy for players who are suspected of causing harm.
As long as the Premier League protects players, this culture of impunity will persist.
Several survivors have already come forward to share their experiences of assault from footballers, and what needs to change.
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What point is trying to be made by referencing the MLB and NFL policies? It literally says in writing “where players found guilty,” but that’s not what the letter is asking for.
The culture in football has to change. We should be protecting the victims not the perpetrators
I am signing because football needs to kick out rapists
As a fourth-generation Arsenal fan, I am ashamed at the way we have dealt with Thomas Partey thus far. We need more transparency and more action.
As a human being who has watched a sexual assault court case involving a loved one in a courtroom and witnessed the incompetency of the police force, inhumane approach of the lawyers, abhorrent treatment of victim, and the hopelessness of the outcome, I have learned to not trust the current legal system to arrive at the right outcome alone.
More action is required: the legal system needs wholesale changes, the relationship between the law and the workplace in sexual abuse/assault/harassment cases needs to change, we need to recognise the disproportionate fail rate in such cases, and push change within the treatment of victims, perpetrators and cases full stop.
Why do you care more about winning a game than protecting women
millionaire footballers are not exempt from judgement on their basic human decency
As a fourth-generation Arsenal fan, I am ashamed at the way we have dealt with Thomas Partey thus far. We need more transparency and more action. As a human being who has watched a sexual assault court case involving a loved one in a courtroom and witnessed the incompetency of the police force, inhumane approach of the lawyers, abhorrent treatment of victim, and the hopelessness of the outcome, I have learned to not trust the current legal system to arrive at the right outcome alone. More action is required: the legal system needs wholesale changes, the relationship between the law and the workplace in sexual abuse/assault/harassment cases needs to change, we need to recognise the disproportionate fail rate in such cases, and push change within the treatment of victims, perpetrators and cases full stop.
I am signing this because we should use the power of football to set a clear example: zero tolerance is the only way forward.
“In the US, Major Baseball League and NFL have publicly accessible policies, where players found guilty of domestic abuse, sexual violence or child abuse can be suspended without pay, or banned for life.” Make it the same in the UK. Zero tolerance for criminals and abusers.
Zero tolerance for abuse.
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