The England football club manager has come out against homophobia in the sport.

Roy Hodgson was speaking to support the Football v Homophobia community campaign in 2013.

‘I’ve been lucky enough to manage clubs and countries across the globe,’ said Hodgson, who has taken charge of top teams like Inter Milan and Switzerland in his 40 year career.

Chelsea and England soccer legend Graeme Le Saux is to be a star player for the fight against homophobia in sport by joining with Student Pride.

The 44-year-old has been the victim of anti-gay abuse from other football players and fans before, despite being married with two kids.

Now he’s going to score a goal for gays by joining the Student Pride panel debate on homophobia in sport on 1 March in Brighton, south east England.

West Ham United’s Matt Jarvis has become only the third professional footballer to appear on the cover of Attitude magazine.

David Beckham was the first professional player to do so in 2002, followed by Freddie Ljungberg in 2006.

In its January issue, Jarvis tells the magazine that today’s football community is not homophobic and would accept gay professional players.

When asked if players should come out, Jarvis told Attitude, ‘Yeah, of course.’

Former professional football player, Kieron Brady, has become a patron of Sunderland Pride in a bid to show the red card to homophobia.

Brady, 41, was a Midfielder for Sunderland Associated Football Club in north east England from 1989 to 1993 – the soccer team known locally as the Black Cats.

The Sunderland Echo reports he has now become a patron of the local LGBT pride celebration.

A Liverpool FC football player has likened being gay to mental problems in a remark on Twitter.

Suso (real name Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáez de la Torre) posted a picture of fellow team mate Jose Enrique getting his teeth whitened, with the comment: ‘What f*** is he doing?... This guy is gay. He has some mental problems. He does everything except play football.’

The 19-year-old Spaniard has since deleted the tweet, and uploaded it with a different comment saying ‘I dunno what to say…’

British singer Olly Murs has revealed if he was gay, he would definitely prefer the older, successful male.

The ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ singer named football star David Beckham and acting legend George Clooney as his ‘ideal’ boyfriend.

In an interview with the Daily Star, he said: ‘My ideal man, if I were gay, would be David Beckham or George Clooney.

‘Both are successful, good-looking and talented.’

He added: ‘I have never kissed a bloke. Not seriously anyway.’

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The chair of the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) has revealed he has had recent conversations with eight top players about coming out as gay.

But Clarke Carlisle, who is a soccer star himself, says none of them followed through despite considering it.

The 32-year-old plays for York City as a defender as well as being chair of the PFA, the trade union for professional soccer players in England and Wales.

A man has been found dead in London’s largest gay bathhouse sauna, Chariots Roman Spa.

Police and ambulance paramedics were called today (11 July) to the venue in Fairchild Street, in the area of the British capital referred to interchangably as Shoreditch or as Liverpool Street after its main train station.

The man, who has not been identified was found deceased in the venue. Detectives from the London borough of Hackney are treating his death as suspicious and are investigating.

A post-mortem will be held tomorrow.

Jermain Defoe has become the first Premiership footballer to openly visit G-A-Y club in London since the 1990s.

The Spurs striker was at the UK capital's world famous nightspot, which is held at Heaven, on Saturday (10 March) to watch his popstar girlfriend Alexandra Burke perform her latest single Elephant.

Jamie Redknapp was the last high profile player to visit the club in 1997 to support his future wife Louise, who sang Let's Go Round Again.

Former Manchester United footballer Ravel Morrison has been accused of posting a homophobic tweet.

The 19-year-old midfielder, who recently transferred from the world's most famous club to West Ham United, was hauled into a meeting at Britain's Football Association yesterday and has until Monday to explain himself.

Morrison, who despite his young age gained a reputation as a loose cannon while playing for David Beckham's old team, reportedly posted the hateful comment after allegedly being provoked on Twitter.

The BBC3 documentary which investigates the lack of professional gay footballers in the United Kingdom has brought in nearly a quarter million more viewers than normal.

Britain's Gay Footballers, presented by Amal Fashanu, was watched by 712,000 BBC3 viewers on Monday night, over 50 per cent higher than the usual viewing figures for that time slot.

The 9 to 10pm time slot for BBC3 has brought in an average of 470,000 viewers over the past 12 months.