The displeasure over the Vancouver Whitecaps’ handling of allegations of abuse toward past women’s players has continued to grow, as the supporters’ groups will once again stage a…
They have spoken with their feet once already, staging an in-game walkout protest during the team’s last home game, showing “disgust” over the club’s handling of a mounting avalanche of abuse allegations.
@Southsiders and @CurvaCollective and other fans walking out at minute 35 at last night's Whitecaps game in support of @ciaramccormack #vwfc #vancouversouthsiders #curvacollective #vancouver #canada pic.twitter.com/4gXLDVhqrd Brett Adams, head of the Whitecaps academy in the Kootenays, was fined and suspended by the English Football Association after allegedly throwing a banana at a black player on his club’s youth team — with “f*** off” written on it — and told him to “f*** off and eat it.”
“It’s personally really … irritating. Whenever I think about it, I start having this anger build up,” said Sabourin-Hertzog. “And if they’re complicit in minimizing that kind of behaviour, or not taking the potential effects of that seriously, how can you trust them with the careers of young athletes who might be in their residency ?”
After meeting with Ciara McCormack and Eden Hingwing, two voices from the teams who have been prominent in bringing the allegations to light, the Southsiders decided to stage the walkout.
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