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Miguel Delaney: The truth behind the Rainbow Laces campaign has been forgotten as the Premier…

It’s time to remember the simple message behind the campaign

Rainbow Laces branding ahead of a Premier League match at Villa Park, Birmingham. Photo credit: Nick Potts/PA Wire.

Rainbow Laces branding ahead of a Premier League match at Villa Park, Birmingham. Photo credit: Nick Potts/PA Wire.

Miguel Delaney

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In some ways, the Premier League is fortunate there is always another game to create the next controversy. It is such a content machine that there is very little space for any individual story to even go on for that long. So it was on Wednesday, in how the very nature of Manchester United’s defeat to Arsenal meant that the post-game discussion centred on the actual match rather than the decision of the squad not to wear rainbow jackets due to Noussair Mazraoui’s refusal.

Not all themes are the same, though, and it is right that this story is returned to for Ruben Amorim’s Friday press conference.

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