It’s not often that I use this place to hawk out my football-related work (you’d all get bored quickly, I’m sure), but the latest podcast I’ve recorded is about more than just sport.
For the last two months, I’ve been working on a special one-off twofootedtackle podcast on attitudes to homosexuality within football and what the authorities are doing to tackle homophobia in the game.
Over at Pitch Invasion, I discuss Gareth Thomas’s coming out and ask if we can expect something similar in football. The answer, I suspect, is probably not.
Out of all the things I’ve written on sport, this has definitely been one of the most thought-provoking pieces for me. One thought that occurred to me post-article was the treatment of players post-outing.
I’d imagine that there’s a few sportsman where their sexuality is reasonably well-known, but it’s not in the media’s interest to out them, giving they stopped doing that for the sake of it several years back.