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’
- GAY FOOTBALL MANAGER LE TUFFS ME OUT WHILE PLAYG NON-LEAGUE BUT FEARS PREMIER LEAGUE STARS N’T BEE OF OWNERS
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
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.
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GAY FOOTBALL MANAGER LE TUFFS ME OUT WHILE PLAYG NON-LEAGUE BUT FEARS PREMIER LEAGUE STARS N’T BEE OF OWNERS
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. 13Le Tuffs is an openly gay football managerCred: Oliver Dixon.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR MEN'S PRO SPORTS TO INTIFY AS GAY
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. Tuffs said uld take a player to e out when he is an amy, before makg big, to fally break years of silence about gay football stars playg at the hight level.
Tuffs was 15 when he accintally revealed he was gay to his team-mat at Camberley Town. HOMOPHOBIC ABUSE. It was there where he first enuntered abe as a gay man football.
He said: "When I played for London Tans, alongsi gay and straight people, I was abed. When I played for London Tans, alongsi gay and straight people, I was abed. "We ed to play jt agast other gay teams, but bee we were very succsful and won the league two years a row we were promoted to a league where we played agast ls gay-iendly teams.