Campaigners today called for an end to body shaming in modern football. Activist Doris Wodger has criticised the media portrayal of body diversity at Euro 2016:
"Without exception, successful footballers are shown to be slim, while beer-swilling hooligans are invariably portrayed as overweight, with all the negative connotations about body image this implies. In this day and age I find it disgusting that such body prejudice is perpetuated by the mainstream media. It is high time we had some fuller-figured footballer role models for young fat people to look up to. In the past we had the likes of Neville Southall, Jan Molby or Jimmy Five Bellies, but in the current climate of body fascism there is no one."
Wodger made the news earlier this month when she called for a boycott of the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam because long distance runners are all "beanpoles".
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