Should the President of the Spanish FA resign

Oh, I hope he has.

It is now being reported that the Spanish FA are taking legal action against the player for lying. Unbelievable!

At the very least he should have realized he was wrong and apologized, it shouldnt have happened a kiss on the lips is intimate.

The media reaction is over the top as usual, his position is impossible either he resigns or he will be sacked, but if anyone thinks mens attitude will change they are mistaken. Those in the public eye will be more careful, the rest will carry on as before.

He hasn’t resigned.

Streaky

It is now being reported that the Spanish FA are taking legal action against the player for lying. Unbelievable!

What?! 😲

Honestly, this is becoming a complete farce. It's as if Spanish men begrudge their women's football team winning the World Cup.
How to tarnish their moment of glory!

Look that way doesn't it Callistemon.

At the very least he should have apologised. Yes, but that would have meant admitting he shouldn’t have done it.
Re the placement of the slap - are we now to accept that it’s OK for men to hit women anywhere on their bodies, even disguised as congratulations.
Also, crotch clutching hands then touching my face . . . Eeeuw!

What an awful mess. would we tolerate it in the UK? No!

but girls and women should not have to even have to worry about it to enter the sport, imo. a quick and wholehearted apology immediately and clear guidelines on sport straightaway could have made a difference?

It looks as if the turmoil is as much to do with the need to change attitudes on society and has stirred a great deal up.

Streaky

It is now being reported that the Spanish FA are taking legal action against the player for lying. Unbelievable!

He's trying to claim she lifted him by his hips off his feet 🤨 but the video quite clearly shows him lifting her off her feet!

It's one sorry mess and will tarnish their win

I have been sexually assaulted many times at Wales/England rugby matches and didn’t know

It has that feeling of things having come to a head that have been rumbling away. Probably not just one person, more a culture.

youtu.be/DN--jMRVlOc?si=uOIeRlrRvLKOiyJ9
I have found a clip of the crotch grabbing and clearly his passions were aroused. Perhaps he has a reputation of inappropriate behaviour around the female players and this has been the final straw. He quite rightly has to face the consequences of his subsequent arrogance.
Is it the way of the world now that when, at the very least, a person should show some humility and offer an apology, they refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing and turn the tables by accusing the complainer of lying? Hell mend us if we support that state of affairs.

Men will feel that they can get away with this behaviour as long as women collude in minimising it.

I've moved from "disciplined but not sacked" to "sacked ASAP".

Like so many incidents with men who cannot admit they might have done something wrong, if he'd apologised appropriately, that could have been the end of it. Instead he's accused the player of lying and caused pressure to be brought on her to change her story to one that suits his narrative.

So not just sleazy but a bully too.

Even my dh who is bit of a dinosaur thought it was awful and certainly inappropriate. He was really annoyed by it.

This team has wom twice- the championship and saying stop to sexual harassment and assault and uncover the culprit

The second is way bigger than the first, imho

What’s strange about this statement by Rubiales?
“My desire in that moment was exactly the same as if I'd have been kissing one of my daughters,"

Sorry I got it wrong it's the President who has resigned. Can't keep up with football www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/luis-rubiales-resignation-spanish-fa-b2399588.html

I haven't read all the thread, but have just seen the picture, this has probably already been pointed out, but he had his hands so firmly holding her head in place whilst he was planting the unsolicited kiss, she couldn't have escaped if she wanted to.

When I was 17 an oldish man did the same to me only worse he managed to prise his tongue in. I've never forgotten how bad it felt.
This guy is using his position and power to be a letch just like
The orange face American ex president.
They both need to be replaced, it's a new world of etiquette.

Luis Rubiales has just been suspended by FIFA (the international body) for 90 days.

90 days? Let’s hope that’s time to gather the evidence to sack him

He’s now saying I asked her if she minded a little peck and she said fine, now that’s a load of bull, there was no conversation between them, and no time for one, he kissed every other girl on the ear, side of the face, but with her he grabbed her head with both hands and kissed her full on the mouth she could not have escaped, she was clearly embarrassed in front of so many thousands and just smiled as she walked off that does nt make it right or mean she was comfortable with it.
It happened three times with me when I was young
One man pushed me in the little tearoom at work and pushed me against the wall and kissed me I wriggled out of his grasp away, he was a friend of my dads I never told my dad he would have been angry
The second time I was working as a chamber maid in a big hotel while the children were at school an old man probably well into his 60 s + asked me if I could help him move a mattress up to the attic rooms I never dreamed of anything bad and said ‘of course’ we carried the mattress up the stairs and as we laid it on the floor he pushed me down onto it luckily I was young and nimble enough to get up before he got down and I ran The third time was a different job and the boss whose wife worked there as well was always making situations where he would pass me closely so he could rub his body against mine, but I needed the job and didn’t want to upset the wife so I just kept my wits about me and made sure I was never in a position for him to do it
This is not as it should be at all
The man is a dinosaur if he thinks any of that was right

BlueBelle - I’ve had one face grabbed, pulled down held while the man planted a long kiss on my closed lips. It was towards the end of a long drink taken meal with a group of 18 friends. I was walking past him on my way to bed, I’d had 1 glass of wine, most others including him, drank more. I managed to pull away, he said loudly, I need more sex. I told him - you aren’t going to get that from me”. I looked round, no one appeared to have noticed or heard anything. My husband was across the table, deep in conversation. I decided not to ‘make a fuss’ though I was livid.
I told 4 female friends the next morning, 2 said he’d done similar to them. One said ‘he wouldn’t dare do that to me’ - putting the 3 of us firmly in our ‘easy victim’ place.