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    Britain's Gay Footballers

    Is anyone else watching this fascinating documentary on BBC3. In short it's asking why, of all the thousands of footballers in England, not one is currently openly gay. And what would happen if one did come out as gay, and the abuse he would probably get from opposing fans. If statistics suggest that one in 10 people are gay, surely there are hundreds of homosexual players in England?

    I don't understand how racist chanting and abuse is punished so severely and deservedly, and now frowned upon by all fans (just one pic of a man doing a monkey chant in the Liverpool game got circulated all over the internet and he was promptly arrested). And yet would the same happen if an openly gay player got abuse? Would the clubs ban the offenders for life as they usually do with racists? And do you guys think we will have a gay footballer come out any time soon?

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    Woody you make a very good point i think eventually it would be punished severly and froned on by fans but i think there would a period of shock in general to it so it could be a painful transition, personally i think that the game need to move with the time and let it be known that there is nothing wrong with it.
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    I watched it the other night, and i thought John Fashanu was a right cunt for what he said about his Brother, Justin must of really took those comments to heart and thought about them before killing himself..
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