GK Barry and Ella Rutherford’s Women’s League Cup draw has been criticised after the pair made lesbian jokes and acted unprofessionally throughout.

The TikTok influencer, real name Grace Keeling, and her footballer girlfriend, who plays for Portsmouth, conducted the draw on Tuesday (25 November). Keeling was tasked with pulling the balls out of a bag, while Rutherford informed viewers of which teams had been drawn.

At one point, Keeling accidentally put a ball that had already been pulled back into the bag. “Am I allowed to do that? I’ve done it now, it’s too late. Oh I picked up the same ball,” she said.

Online viewers were also quick to hit out at the influencer for looking in the bag before pulling out balls.

But the duo’s execution of the draw, which took place on the Women’s Super

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