Silence over football’s links with sexual and domestic violence is deafening | Max Rushden

Sometimes we have to confront things we would rather ignore – only then will football and sport really be for everyone

There are lots of problems in football. And there are lots of conversations about the problems in football. Yet there’s a chasmic silence when it comes to the game’s disturbing links with sexual and domestic violence.

Why? Why aren’t there hundreds of opinion pieces about this? It’s difficult and pointless to rank all the bleak aspects of the game – from racism to sportswashing, from homophobia to corruption – but those conversations exist.