The most proment gay manager English men’s football on drsg-room banter and the people at the top of the game
Contents:
- 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. 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?
GAY FOOTBALL MANAGER LE TUFFS ME OUT WHILE PLAYG NON-LEAGUE BUT FEARS PREMIER LEAGUE STARS N’T BEE OF OWNERS
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. 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.