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Luis Rubiales refuses to step down as president of the Spanish football federation in the aftermath of his behaviour at Sunday's Women's World Cup final.

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[–] wiase@discuss.online 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why is the BBC still using this disgusting photo for thumbnails? Could've just used a photo of Rubiales alone.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

To enrage of course. Drives clicks. Like everything else caught up in the enshittification

[–] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I'm ready to be vilified to defend my ideals,"

Ok. He's a gross, sexist man who any organization should be embarrassed to have as a representative.

"I grabbed that part of my body that you have already seen"

Ah, so he's done this sort of thing before. Repeat behavior, unapologetic and doubling down on it. This should take the Spanish FA less than 24 hours to kick him out and issue an apology statement for having kept him on for as long as they did.

[–] squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

...you have already seen"

I took that as more "you saw where I grabbed myself" instead of "I did it before, and I did it again"

[–] WagesOf@artemis.camp 20 points 2 years ago

They should have jailed him for sexual assault, leaving the stadium in a squad car, not a limo.

[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] anewbeginning@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

But he loves to touch.

[–] unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Damn, those drones sitting in the audience clapping is equally disgusting.