Campaigners say Gareth Southgate beard hatred must stop

Beard Liberation Front

26th June

contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @kmflett

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that the beard hatred of England football manager Gareth Southgate must stop.

While England won their group going into the knock-out stages of the European Football Championship, Southgate came in for criticism as the team drew 0-0 and managed only one goal in three games.

The campaigners say that while Southgate’s match strategies can be legitimately criticised when this slides over into attacks on his beard it becomes entirely unacceptable.

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, let’s face it those attacking Gareth Southgate’s beard are in the main a lot of clean shaven, God Save The King mumbling, reactionaries.There is no room for beard hatred in sport.