An Instagram post by beardedbeth has gone viral in just a day, racking in over 3.9 million views. Mostly because it highlighted a terrifying reality for the partners and children of a portion of English football fans. Following England’s 2-1 defeat to Argentina in the FIFA semi-final, there was a dramatic spike in domestic violence reports. In the video, Beth calls out the men who use football as an excuse to harm the people they are supposed to love.
“I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if it’s you, please do listen,” she said. “If you watched England lose last night and your first instinct was to get up from where you were, whether that be your living room or a pub or wherever you were, and go and find the woman that you’re supposed to love most in your life and the woman who loves you and batter her to the ends of the earth because a football game was lost that had nothing to do with her and nothing to do with you, then you are scum.”
