English actor Antony cotton has claimed that every Premier League football team has three gay players in it and insisted that he knows who some of them are.
The gay actor, who is best known for his roles in Coronation Street, reckons it's time that the players came out of their closet. He said that it's the only way to beat homophobia in the soccer world.
Manchester United fan Cotton insisted that there are hundreds of gay footballers, not one or two, adding that if there are 22 gay footballers in a squad, by the law of average there would be two or three gay footballers in every single team, the Daily Star reported.
But, he questioned that isn't it strange there isn't one out Premier League footballer. He added that of course it would happen eventually and even admitted that he knows ay footballers.
Cotton said that everyone knows gay footballers, adding that everyone knows a gay footballer.
The English actor said that the reason none of them had come out was because of fear and also the fact they felt they didn't need to be gay ambassadors, adding that a footballer's gift is in their feet so that they don't have to speak.
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Cotton claimed that that's a fundamental issue in what they do; adding that the footballers don't have to speak, and they don't have to be spokesmen.
Cotton claimed that he is a huge football fan and would love it if a footballer came out.
