New Alternative News Channel "GB News" chaired by Andrew Neil launching - read OP before posting

Either that or they realised "Footballer's charity work raises public profile and leads to sponsorship deals which footballer also uses to increase charity work" didn't have quite the bite they hoped it might.

since when did the facts make any difference to their opinion?

Exactly. They only have faux empathy for minorities in an attempt to get their vote and couldn't care less about anyone else least of all their opinions. One would have be super naive to think the current day focus on equality diversity and so on has anything to do with empathy. What we see is the some old socialists reinventing themselves and if the UK is anything to go by it's not getting them anyway because thankfully some people weren't born yesterday. In fact one of the reasons the UK's Labour are doing so particularly badly is because they have bought into all of that woke nonsense. The reality is some of them are so genuinely nasty that the idea that they are at the same time empathetic caring people is laughable. Owen Jones - genuinely nice guy, lol.

The important thing whatever way they go is to make sure to whinge constantly about how it was the vested interests in the "woke left" who caused it to fail and not the fact it was just a poor idea

Says the guy who laughingly called me a racist, the only person so far to use a label has been YOU!!!

Unfortunately this is simply typical of that posters content. Ill thought out hammering at the keyboard which ends up sounding like mindless dreck. If footballers had just stuck to what the were good at, there'd still be bananas thrown at black players like there were in the 80's.

Its been a lot more recent than the 80s

The general timeline seems to be:

• Rashford challenges government policy and forces them into U-turn
• Rashford becomes more popular due to above
• Rashford gets deals/offers based on public profile
• Rashford agrees to deals/offers while using same to also give more to charity (both a portion of his fee and money from those companies donating)
• Rashford still becomes more popular
• Rashford due to all of the above has now increased his own wealth/status, while government policy and funding for vulnerable children has been increased, and charitable donations also increased due to Rashford's campaigns/deals

The accusation seems to be that since Rashford has now likely increased his own wealth, his charity work is therefore tainted and not altruistic and he should be condemned for it (in line with Jimmy Saville). But the accusation seems entirely centered on the idea that Rashford only did it all to make a profit for himself.

An accusation eskimohunt and others have provided no basis for.

You do not have any proof that Rashford has done anything illegal or inappropriate. All you have is an article you have not read and the Spectator has not published.

Frankly I find it shocking the the mods have allowed this libel slander to go unchecked

How should he have "disclosed" this alleged "conflict of interest", a conflict that you haven't even thrashed out yet.

What was the "conflict of interest" in your eyes?

How has Rashford acted "inappropriately"?

What "behaviour" has he been cloaking that you feel is worthy of him being likened to Jimmy Saville?

what conflict of interest? what has been established? You have no idea if he has acted inappropriately. You are basing this on personal dislike and nothing else. He embarrassed the UK government you admire so much and you think that deserves a comparison with a child abuser. As I said earlier you don't require evidence to make your posts. Facts and reality are irrelevant to your postings.

You said that rashford acted inappropriately. You said he had a conflict of interests. you may have repeated stated that we must wait for the spectator article but you have have not applied that standard to yourself. yours posts on rashford have been dishonest and not based on any established facts.