Britain's Gay Footballers
A compilation of the best tweets from Gay Sports Blog's (@gaysportsblog) coverage of the BBC three documentary exploring attitudes to homosexuality in football.
- Amal Fashanu starts the show by interviewing her uncle John Fashanu, who infamously condemned his brother when he came out.
- The focus then turns to homophobic chants at football games, particularly prevalant at Brighton. Here's one (of many examples) of abusive chants from away fans at the AmEx Stadium.
- Individual players have also been targetted, such as former Tottenham defender Sol Campbell.
- Arsenal fan Matt Lucas gives Amal his thoughts on the abuse received by Campbell.
- Amal then interviews John McGovern - a former colleague of Justin Fashanu at Nottingham Forest.
- Max Clifford also offers his opinion
- Interesting to compare the differing attitudes in football and rugby. Amal speaks to rugby player Gareth Thomas.
Homophobia in football won't be dealt with until #britainsgayfootballers come out. Managers/clubs/FA need to create climate where they can.- Openly gay former NBA basketball star John Amaechi offers his insight into coming out as a sportsman.
- Amal then returns to interview her father about the way he treated his brother Justin.
