Where can I get a pair of Rainbow Laces?
You’ve read a bit of the history and you’ve seen the Arsenal players put in an Oscar-winning performance. Now you want to lace up and show your support for #RainbowLaces, so here’s how. You can grab a...
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A brief history of Paddy Power’s Rainbow Laces campaign
In September 2013 Paddy Power, in association with leading gay rights charity Stonewall, set out to tackle homophobia in football by distributing rainbow-coloured football laces (Rainbow Laces) to...
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What is Rainbow Laces all about?
Criss Cross and go under the bridge Then you got to pull it tight Make a loop but keep a long tail That is how to do it right That’s how it started. No-one died throwing themselves in front of the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Watch Arsenal stars give the performance of a lifetime in this Rainbow...
‘You want to get them to say what?!?’ It started with a somewhat-nervous pitch in the Arsenal boardroom. We asked the club to play a lead role in Paddy Power’s Rainbow Laces campaign with Stonewall,...
View ArticleRAINBOW LACES REACTION: The football world is a bit brighter this Monday...
The football world is a bit brighter this Monday as the #RainbowLaces 2014 campaign kicks off. Paddy Power, in association with Stonewall UK, the Gay Football Supporters’ Network, Arsenal FC and Metro,...
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Rylan Clark: I was a Junior Hammer but the sad truth is I don’t feel...
Every single person who walks through the turnstiles at a football match has something to hide or something they’re embarrassed by. They’ve almost certainly done something in their lives that the...
View ArticleRAINBOW LACES REACTION: Paddy Power staff, Newcastle United and a lovely...
Paddy Power can’t change that we’re a bit shameless in seeking publicity. But, along with partners such as Stonewall as GFSN, we’re trying to drive change in football and attitudes to sexuality with...
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Irvine Welsh: The English exported homosexuality to Scotland in the 1990s in...
If anybody told me as a 13-year-old, acne-stricken, squeaky-bollocked wanabee football thug on the Excursion One bus (‘Excursion One: we kill for fun’), that I’d be writing a column endorsing a...
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RAINBOW LACES REACTION: Roy of the Rovers, Piers Morgan, a rugby hunk and...
The rainbow keeps getting brighter as the support for our #RainbowLaces campaign continues to spread the love. Footballers, rugby players, regular folk, politicians and whatever category Piers Morgan...
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GARETH THOMAS: Ending homophobia in football needs more than lip service, it...
One syllable, two syllables, three. Whatever it is. The sound made by your mouth, travelling down from the stands, hitting my eardrum and registering in my brain. All those horrible words used to abuse...
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Graham Poll: You can wash off the abuse for being a referee but not the...
He was a referee for 27 years – 14 of those in the Premier League. He’s heard ‘sickening’ obscenities screamed at superstars such as David Beckham and winced as his own wife and kids reported the abuse...
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RAINBOW LACES REACTION: Find out how Manchester City, Jeff Stelling and...
All eyes will be on the boots this weekend as players, managers and fans from across the UK and Ireland lace-up in support of #RainbowLaces – the campaign to kick homophobia out of the game....
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