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Clarke ‘ashamed’ by homophobia
- Updated: October 17, 2016
FA chairman Greg Clarke says he is “personally ashamed” that gay football players do not feel safe to come out.
Facing questions from the Culture, Media and Sport select committee of MPs, Clarke insisted the environment of football could not guarantee gay players would not receive abuse from supporters.
Clarke admitted he is aware of at least two gay players in the Premier League, one of them an England international, who had expressed a desire to come last season, but never did.
On the same day an investigation was launched into allegations of Luton supporters shouting homophobic abuse at Leyton Orient, Clarke said he is determined to stamp this “abhorrent” behaviour out of the game.
“I would be amazed if we haven’t got gay players in the Premier League and I am personally ashamed they don’t feel safe to come out,” Clarke said.
“I think what we have in football is a cross-section of society. When you get a sample size of four million – 10 per cent of the population – …
