Source: TheGuardian
Joe Jacobson: ‘I have to speak out. Football sometimes needs to be prompted’
Wycombe captain, one of a handful of Jewish footballers in England, on coping with abuse and the sport’s response“I knew by speaking out that I would get a backlash,” Joe Jacobson says. The Wycombe Wanderers defender, who is one of a handful of Jewish footballers playing in England, is speaking with depressing honesty. Jacobson, who hopes to lead Wycombe out at Wembley when they face Peterborough United in the EFL Trophy final on Sunday afternoon, was targeted after posting on social media about Hamas attacking Israel on 7 October.There was nothing particularly controversial about the 37-year-old Welshman’s comments. Jacobson simply questioned images of people in London and Sydney appearing to celebrate the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. “We got a few comments back,” he says. Continue reading......read full article
