Football clubs and their governing bodies across the UK are being challenged by fans and campaigners galvanised in the wake of the Raith Rovers outcry, who are asking them to show leadership and follow up “easy” words with action on gender-based violence.
It is two months since the Kirkcaldy club signed David Goodwillie, who in a landmark 2017 case was ordered to pay damages to the woman he was found by a civil court to have raped. The move resulted in a ferocious backlash that escalated across the first week of February, with sponsorship withdrawals, multiple resignations and the women’s team moving to sever ties.
