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Old 29-09-2004, 17:35   #1
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Soccer team's 'gay hair' ban
Soccer team's 'gay hair' ban
By Sarah Hills, Metro
29 September 2004

While England's football supremos fret over manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's lively love life, Nigerian officials have found themselves in an even hairier situation.

But their plight has little to do with fending off rumours of torrid affairs. Rather, they are trying to get their young players to stop wearing hair braids, dreadlocks and earrings - as it makes them 'look gay'.



Many of Nigeria's top stars, including captain Jay- Jay Okocha, striker Nwankwo Kanu and former Derby player Taribo West, have braided hair but the style is deemed too much.

Some sports administrators feel players should be banned if they arrive with unusual hairdos. 'They should even be suspended for some years,' said official Ahmed Lawan.

Referees at a forthcoming junior tournament should remove offending players even if they are the best on the field because their behaviour was culturally unacceptable and promoted homosexuality, he added.

Mr Lawan's comments echoed that of a government official from the information ministry, Otunba Olusegun Runshewe.

He said last week: 'Don't forget that in the developing world the braiding of hair and earrings have a sense of homosexuality.'

But not everyone agrees. One male spectator said: 'I don't see it as if these guys are gay. I see them portraying African culture in another perspective.'



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Old 29-09-2004, 17:38   #2
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One male spectator said: 'I don't see it as if these guys are gay. I see them portraying African culture in another perspective.'
Need I say more .
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Old 29-09-2004, 17:43   #3
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It would never work. It's your basic rights to be able to look and dress the way you want. And, the Football Association would be laughed at and insulted from every direction if they dared to ban players for this.

And personally, I like braided hair. Unfortunately, braided hair on a young white male like myself would look rather stupid, don't you think?
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Old 29-09-2004, 17:46   #4
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And personally, I like braided hair. Unfortunately, braided hair on a young white male like myself would look rather stupid, don't you think?
I don't mind braided hair either, but it generally doesn't suit white people, especially women.
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Old 29-09-2004, 17:48   #5
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Yes, I would have to agree, braided hair on women looks awful, although it only tends to be used by a chavette.
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Old 29-09-2004, 17:50   #6
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Becks had ''corn-rows'' at one time. Was all over the Newspapers. He immediately got rid of them, when he noticed he looked like a right prat.
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Old 29-09-2004, 17:55   #7
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Again, I will go back to the, "it doesn't suit a white male".

I have yet to see a guy who has looked good with braided hair.

However, I liked Kanu's braided hair for example.
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Again, I will go back to the, "it doesn't suit a white male".
Don't worry your point was digested . I just suddenly remembered Beckham with that hair.
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Well...

The gay Nigerian footballers sure have a problem.

Haha, "Culturally unacceptable"
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i don't mind Africans with braided hair. it's part of their culture. and the association cannot ban them because of that, because that would be discrimination. i don't care how j.j. okocha does his hair as long as he does magic
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LOL perhaps the Spanish team should be checked as well, there's some awful mullets there
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Nigerian FA says it, it's funny.

If the English FA were to say it . . .
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Jason Scotland was never selected for the Trinidad and Tobago team because he refused to have a haircut. He had been growing his hair for over a year and the manager said that he would only select him if he got a haircut. I think they lost their first game so they called him back anyway. Madness
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I think those braids look very good on the right person, that being a non-white male - nowt queer mind.
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