‘I feel like a proud mother’
I had planned to write something completely different today but at 2:39am I decided to push that idea to the side and talk about some athletes that continue to inspire by leading from the front, which is fitting considering it is Black History Month.
A few days ago ESPN UK revealed that from August 6th to September 15th the two most trolled Premier League players were Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling. Marcus Rashford had received about 28.5% of the negative tweets recorded and Raheem Sterling had received 24.7%. About a day later, Marcus Rashford received the news that he had become an MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours list.
Even though they receive the most negative tweets online I could argue that Rashford and Sterling are the two British footballers that we should be incredibly proud of. Marcus Rashford publicly pressed for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the UK Government to allow about 1.3 million children in the UK to claim free school meal vouchers during the coronavirus pandemic. This was met with widespread praise and adoration from most, especially my mother who not only commented on his facebook post but she said she felt like a proud mother. In fact she thinks he deserves more than an MBE. However, Rashford like any other black athlete daring to fight for what he believes in did have the odd critic, like a certain right wing blogger who asked if…
