{"id":2146,"date":"2017-01-09T14:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2017-01-09T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T14:01:10","slug":"greg-clarke-says-gay-footballers-could-come-out-together-at-start-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2017\/01\/09\/greg-clarke-says-gay-footballers-could-come-out-together-at-start-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Clarke says gay footballers could come out together at start of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/Greg-Clarke-FA-Chairman.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2147\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/Greg-Clarke-FA-Chairman.png\" alt=\"greg-clarke-fa-chairman\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/Greg-Clarke-FA-Chairman.png 620w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/01\/Greg-Clarke-FA-Chairman-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greg Clarke, the Football Association chairman, has spoken to gay footballers and suggested the idea of a group of players coming out together.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke said last year that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t recommend\u201d a footballer coming out at the moment because of the risk they would be verbally abused, but believes several players sharing the spotlight may be the answer. \u201cI put the message out there that if a number of top-level pros want to come out, why don\u2019t we synchronise it? So one person doesn\u2019t have to come out on their own,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/sport\/fa-chairman-ive-spoken-to-gay-players-hg0sb3s03\" title=\"\" class=\"u-underline\">he said in an interview with the Times newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Premier League, the Football League and the FA could do it at the start of the season. At the start of the season everybody thinks it is their season, the crowds are happy, the sun is shining. I was asked [recently] if football is ready for top-level pros to come out and I said I\u2019m not sure we were. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/jan\/09\/greg-clarke-fa-keen-conditions-gay-footballers-come-out\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Clarke, the Football Association chairman, has spoken to gay footballers and suggested the idea of a group of players coming out together. Clarke said last year that he \u201cwouldn\u2019t recommend\u201d a footballer coming out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-inclusion","category-lgbt","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}