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PIONEERING gay football manager Le Tuffs believ would be difficult for a Premier League player to e out if they want to be accepted by the o

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LEATHERHEAD FC MANAGER LE TUFFS: ‘I’M SHOWG YOUNG PEOPLE YOU N BE GAY AND A SUCCS’

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“They would have thought: ‘Why is a gay person tellg me what to do on a football pch?

”Tuffs is an openly gay man who is also a football manager.

“It means a lot to me to be out there bee I know ’s showg young people that you n be gay, be good at sport and still be a succs, ” he says. “Or my se you n be gay, terrible at sport and still be a succs. Tuffs’s experience serv to be amplified as football attempts to change the long-standg stigma around homosexualy wh the game.

GAY FOOTBALL MANAGER LE TUFFS ME OUT WHILE PLAYG NON-LEAGUE BUT FEARS PREMIER LEAGUE STARS N’T BEE OF OWNERS

A man who n’t stop crackg jok and troduc himself as a “massive gayer non-league football” says he and enurag banter the drsg room to addrs the fact of his sexualy. Has anyone else had a player e out as gay on FM?

Is there any way to force a player to e out as gay?

So I was simmg along and I got a msage my box that my star Dutch wonr kid Dick van Wijk had e out as gay. PIONEERING gay football manager Le Tuffs believ would be difficult for a Premier League player to e out if they want to be accepted by the old guard and foreign owners that n the clubs.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY

13Le Tuffs is an openly gay football managerCred: Oliver Dixon.

But wh some clubs n by owners om untri who don't regnise the gay muny - upled wh 'old-school' ach - that mak impossible for homosexual footballers to reveal their sexual preference, pecially if they are young and workg towards a profsnal ntract.

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Jaguars assistant Kev Maxen be first male ach major men's pro sports to intify as gay.

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