I think it's a cheap badge of honour for the FA. "Look how inclusive we are". They pick and choose their causes, choose when they will - and won't - accept politics into the beautiful game. It's ok to have rainbow shite but not ok to wear a shirt supporting the dockers. And poppies? Be VERY careful. You don't have to look far to see where this leads - kneeling for the US National Anthem? The quenelle?
The whole thing stinks of gesturing. What if a captain didn't want to wear a rainbow armband; would that have been OK? Who chooses the "acceptable" causes, on what grounds, and why? Would it be ok if a player (or indeed a fan) refused to observe a minute's silence? Or wear a black armband?
In honesty I don't think it's a small step - except down a cul-de-sac. I don't think it's for football to signal its virtue by clinging desperately on to the shirt-tails of respectability by having rainbow fucking laces whilst the whole of professional football luxuriates in a sewer of bungs, bribes, cheating and exploitation.
Traa.