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The campaigners hope the players will wear the laces in their club fixtures on Saturday and Sunday (21 and 22 September). Meanwhile, they’ve sent out 5,000 pairs of laces – one for every footballer in all 134 professional clubs in the UK. So Paddy Power and Stonewall are today kicking off a campaign with a week of publicity using the slogan ‘Right Behind Gay Footballers’ and the hashtag #RBGF. The stats also show seven in 10 soccer fans who have attended a match had heard or witnessed homophobia on the terraces.Īnd over half of fans think the Football Association, Premier League and Football League aren’t doing enough to tackle anti-gay abuse. Instead they use a formula… 2.29 x 10 to the power of 134.Īs a comparison, this is similar odds to predicting the correct score in 150 football matches, one after the other. That’s such a big number (more than a quadragintillion) that mathematicians don’t bother writing it out in full.
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They’ve done the math – and with 5,000 pro male soccer players in the UK and 6% of the population being gay, the likelihood of none of them being gay or bisexual is so remote as to be impossible.
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It comes as bookmakers Paddy Power start a campaign with leading gay campaign organization Stonewall to tackle homophobia in football today (15 September). Bookies have calculated the odds of there being no gay footballer in British soccer and generated a number so big it is 134 digits long.