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Kurt Zouma: English Football’s Equivalent of Michael Vick?
Animal rights vs Racism
Kurt Zouma, a young Frenchman, who plays for an English soccer team appeared in a footage kicking a cat like a football. Despite the outrage in and around the country, he was selected by his team to play a few nights ago.
Violence against domestic animals is utterly reprehensible and one that should be condemned at every turn and I also do believe that West Ham United made the wrong decision in selecting Kurt Zouma to play against Watford on Tuesday night.
Since then, Adidas made the decision to remove the soccer player from their rooster and the sponsor of the football team has also acted accordingly.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has acted swiftly in taking the pets into custody and the local police force has instigated an investigation into the matter.
And in an interview on the BBC yesterday, a former professional footballer — Chris Kirkland — who had an undistinguished playing career, said that way too much attention was directed to fighting racism and too little was being done about protecting the rights of animals.
But there’s something sinister at play here.