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Getting the handbags out is frequently used in a non-discriminatory way by British soccer commentators to describe the kind of push- and slap-fights that break out on the pitch from time to time. The players are definitely being compared with old ladies, not homosexuals.
That may not be the case here, but remember, old ladies were swinging handbags long before gays were. All hail handbag-swinging grandmas!