The trailblazing LGBT team play on Friday in the first regular season, non-league game at the national stadium
The Wembley lights will be on for a special fixture this Friday night. Stonewall FC are playing Wilberforce Wanderers to honour the trailblazing work of Britain’s first LGBT football team. If that were not occasion enough there will also be three points at stake in the Middlesex County Football League Division One Central & East.
“We’re going to meet at the station and have the whole squad walking down Wembley Way together,” says Stonewall’s manager, Eric Najib Armanazi. “Everyone will be dressed in their club tracksuits and they’ll have 10 minutes to walk on the pitch and take a selfie. But once they are in the dressing room, they have to realise we have a match to win.”
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