half a million gay footballers. None public WOT

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Radio 4 broadcast

Half a million in the world, I suppose they mean.(professionals)

"No gay footballers public."

I suspect it is broadly speaking true.

THE POWER OF CROWDS. would you say?

What lets football (and similar) crowds down is the mob mentality. Even the nicest, most PC person, when in the middle of a beer-fuelled crowd can find themselves chanting 'who's the bastard in the black?'... just because everyone else is doing it. (And why calling someone a bastard is not as bad as insulting their nationality, sexuality or skin colour beats me)

The professor on Thinking Allowed admitted that the research had been done online rather than in person around football grounds because going up to a fan standing with his mates and asking 'can I have your reactions to gay footballers?' might have made things difficult.

Chil LOL at you trying to persuade the other posters to actually listen to the programme they are discussing .

I must catch up on my Thinking Allowed podcasts. Laurie Taylor is my all time favourite lefty.

It's a great prog... often catch it. Who knew sociology could be so interesting? Yes, maybe it's a vain hope, not to say ironic, to think that people want to be informed rather than carry on with the very misconceptions research, such as that presented, is trying to dispel :)

Laurie Taylor was said to be the model
for a randy professor in a famous tv series.
He denies it.

ON SEX

One woman said bluntly. "It is none of anyones business who puts what where."

well said, but it would be serious researchers business.

FAMOUS alleged gays in past times.

Kitchener, Monty, M. Batten.