🚨🏴 Mrs Anderson, Michael Olise’s former school headteacher:
🗣️ “It really annoys me when people say he is nonchalant or arrogant. He is just very shy.
For example, he never raised his hand in class because he never wanted to draw attention to himself.
He would keep his head down, do what he had to do, then head straight to the pitch. Football was already everything to him, it was his whole world..
He was a good student, especially in maths and science, less so in writing, but when his team did not win at break time or something had happened, it was very difficult for him to concentrate again, because he wanted to go out and put things right.
He was already a huge perfectionist who could get frustrated, a future champion. But he wanted to stay in the background.
When the kids went to collect their medals, he stayed to the side.
When you congratulated him for a goal, he would put his finger to his lips and run back into position while looking at the ground." 😄❤️
Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
This is so heartbreaking; He's just a kid. The pain in his voice is evident.
This is institutional racism in action.
Daryl McLune, 16 at the time, was arrested in Wandsworth in July 2021 on suspicion of attempted murder after his mum, Annette McLune, jumped from the roof of their flat in a suicide attempt.
He'd been at his grandma's and cycled home to find his mum critically injured. He was then handcuffed in the street and held for nearly 24 hours, despite not being involved.
Police later found a suicide note and razor blades showing it was self-harm, and he was released without charge. The experience left him with PTSD and affected his schooling.
He later sued the Met Police, and a jury found he was racially discriminated against and treated less fairly than a non-Black boy would have been, awarding him £130,000.
His barrister said it wasn't careful policing, it was a child in crisis being wrongly treated as a suspect, and that discrimination can be unconscious.
This kid looked lonely today so I said come join in with me let’s do a sesh, he was buzzing. spent an hour doin different drills n it’s Got me thinkin this is what it’s all about man, giving back to the ppl it’s free❤️
This video is a call for help.
My mum is battling with stroke, and it is slowly taking her life. She needs urgent medical funds to stay alive, and I cannot do this alone anymore. Please, if you have it in your heart to help or retweet this to someone who can, I beg of you 🤲🏻🙏
Guys don’t understand how much this means
Two youngsters breaking through together in a team that was suffering, now achieving greatness together.
Our longest serving players too 💔