Stonewell’s Rainbow Les campaign, launched in 2013, was supported by all clubs in the top flight of England.
The initiative encouraged all the premiere league players to wear rainbow-colored laces and Captain Rainbow Armbands, showing support for the rights of LGBTQ+ people, inspiring acceptance between children and youth and promoting equality and diversity.
Ipswich captain Sam Morse, a Muslim, decided not to wear a rainbow armband in the last season, the club said it was due to his “religious beliefs”.
Mark Gahi of Crystal Palace wrote ‘I [heart] Jesus beyond his armband, while Manchester United left the plan to wear a jacket supporting LGBTQ+ community as a player refused to wear it.
Meanwhile, the premiere league players have agreed to continue kneeling in 2025–26.
But they will indicate, which is associated with the ‘No Room for Racism “campaign of the Premier League on just two occasions during the Black History Month of October.
England’s women’s team announced that she would stop taking knees.
