who know that they’ll be subject to endless racial abuse after games. It’s disgusting to release at all, but especially right before a major tournament when we’re supposed to be supporting our players. so weird.
another example of how insidious the english media’s racial prejudice is, bc this isn’t just a harmless scene when they’re pushing the same villainising narrative on Bellingham that they do irl, the same blatantly racist narrative of toxicity and arrogance that they force on all-
-players who aren’t white. And alongside that, I find it interesting that the script has him complaining about media and headlines in a way that comes off as self-absorbed when in reality if any players are going to be rightfully conscious of media it’s going to be those players-