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“I’m sure it’s very difficult.
“But I think what we’ve seen so far is that the feedback and the response, it will be incredibly positive.
“If I were an agent of a big footballer, if I knew one of my players was gay, if he was a top player, I’d say, ‘Be the first big player’. He was with us about a month and was such a sweet kid and has now gone to university.” The 26-year-old had been caught up in a military coup and imprisoned for 18 months in Turkey before fleeing.”
Gary said: “He got out.
Danielle’s kind of my best mate, so I have that female connection with her. Poor buggers. I’m sure it’s very difficult. “ Not a clue. I don’t feel lonely.
‘I have the odd date here and there, but nothing, not in terms of a long relationship.’
He added: ‘I’ve been married most of my adult life. Danielle and I had many wonderful years together.
We remain very close and the greatest of friends.’
Despite their break-up, he told The Mirror in 2019 they remained close.
‘Danielle and I are best mates, we still speak three times a day, we text all the time. That was their punishment.”
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GARY LINEKER WANTS to see a Premier League player come out as gay during the Qatar World Cup to send a strong message to a host nation where homosexuality remains a crime.
Former England striker Lineker told the Daily Mirror he knows of two gay Premier League players, saying they had been “very close” to coming out before now.
“It would be great if one or two of them came out during the World Cup.
It would be amazing,” Lineker said.
“I know for a fact that some have been very close and contemplated it. I mean, as an agent, thinking in terms of promotion and stuff, you’re going to be huge.”
Lineker said he turned down the opportunity to host April’s World Cup draw, saying he did not want to do it given his record of criticising corruption around the awarding of the tournament.
“It’s a different FIFA now,” he said.
I know it sounds a bit mad,’ he told The Times.
‘I have lots of company. Two really good marriages, I’m friends with both.
But they had to spend a lot of time watching football. “Obviously, we’re not going to do it in every build-up to every game, but of course we’ll talk about it and openly.”
- Originally published at 09.30
The42 is on Instagram! Fear of the unknown, I imagine. Perhaps they are worried what their team-mates might think, although they probably already know.
“It seems insane that it should even be a thing.
“People say, ‘Yeah, but the crowds.” And I say, ‘Well the crowds chant anyway’.
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The book, written with Ivor Baddiel, also touches on another passion of Gary’s, the rights of refugees.
One chapter tells the story of 75 female Afghan players who fled the Taliban to resettle in Australia in 2021.
He previously told how he had a refugee from Balochistan staying with him in his Surrey home.
And he recently took in a second refugee, this time one fleeing Erdogan’s oppressive regime in Turkey.
Gary said: “He’s a really smart kid and wants to be a rocket scientist, actually.
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