Joey Barton: We must accept openly gay footie stars
Posted Monday, January 30, 2012 by The Sun
Speaking out ... Joey Barton with Amal Fashanu, whose uncle Justin came out in The Sun
He says: "There is no doubt in my mind that in the next ten years we have an openly gay footballer.
"My only fear is that certain managers and individuals within the game will discriminate against people. These archaic figures think if they had a gay footballer, they would have all kinds of shenanigans going on in the dressing room.
"That's not the case. As I say it's more fool them and their lack of social awareness and intelligence.
"I pity them a little bit that they don't have enough about them — enough self-confidence or enough self-worth — to be able to say, 'Know what? This is a relevant subject and this is my opinion on it'.
"And I think it's important that the legacy this generation of players leaves is a generation of players that help not only change the game for the better and change the teams they played in, but also change the culture and the society of the football clubs they played at."
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