The newly appointed Chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Julian Knight, has said that football is still “intolerant” of gay people, and highlighted the lack of openly gay players in the upper levels of the sport.
In his first interview to The House magazine since his appointment, Knight said: “It’s incredible is it not, in a Premier League of several hundred players… that we don’t have an openly gay footballer. “Football is still homophobic, it’s intolerant of gay