Its not just football, its all major pro team sports, except for that Rugby bloke who recently came out... statistics would suggest that there is at least one maybe two gay men on each professional sports team (as the unofficial number has been set at 1:10 in the population... For a sportsman, its the fate worse than death isnt it.. all the macho/invincible personae on display at any sporting event, would make it virtually impossible for any major team sport athlete to come out... It would take a remarkably strong and resolute individual...