Manchester United Football Club decided to go against the Premier League’s decision that players and members of staff should wear the LGBTQ+ as a way to show support for the community.
Manchester United ayers abandoned the club’s plans to wear an Adidas jacket in support of the LGBTQ+ community ahead of Sunday’s Premier League match against Everton after defender Noussair Mazraoui refused to join the initiative.
The Premier League have shown support to the LGBTQ+ community with the players wearing Rainbow Laces period in the past two seasons. United’s players have decided to wear a pride-themed jersey to warm up ahead of games, as well as a similar concept jacket to walk out for the game.
Manchester United were only planning a walk-out jacket but Mazraoui joined the Red Devils for £15m during the summer from Bayern Munich. He had initially told his teammates he was not prepared to wear the outfit, citing his Muslim faith as the reason.
The team then decided that no players would wear the tracksuit so that Mazraoui would not be the only one seen publicly refusing to wear it.
Ipswich Town captain Sam Morsy, also a practising Muslim, refused to wear a rainbow armband for religious reasons in his club’s two Rainbow Laces fixtures to support the LGBTQ community while Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi wore the armband but wrote religious messages on the armband.
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