Paddy power launches ‘pants protest’ at Premier League for Brighton pride

A bespoke 2018 delight edition of the Paddy power pants had been created and round 5,000 pairs of the rainbow-adorned underwear might be fired into the crowds by using a fleet of winged male models, dubbed, Paddy’s Angels”.

Paddy power’s stunt – planned with agency officer & Gentleman – intends to spotlight the statistical anomaly that not one of the 500 avid gamers registered in football’s Premier League is overtly gay.

There are greater than 1000000 people in the UK who identify as being LGBTQ and the Irish betting enterprise is blaming the environment within football for not helping gamers who could wish to come out.

Paul Mallon, head of foremost manufacturer activations at Paddypower, stated: “the realm’s top-rated-watched league should still mirror the community round it – in the UK, one in 50 individuals believe themselves LGBTQ.

And yet, in the Premier League, now not one player is overtly gay. So we’re calling on the league as well itself into 2018, and create a welcoming atmosphere for its first gay player.

We believe an out homosexual Premier League footballer would have a remarkable impact now not just on the LGBTQ group, but society in general.

They would spearhead profound trade and, club hues apart, that’s something we aid greater than anything else.”

This isn’t Paddy power’s first foray into tackling LGBTQ considerations in football: it pioneered and launched the Rainbow Laces crusade, which bought frequent backing throughout the online game.

All through the area Cup, Paddy power donated cash to LGBTQ reasons each time Russia scored, elevating £one hundred seventy.”000 for the perspective basis, which will aid the LGBTQ neighborhood in football.