- Blackpool forward describes ‘massive relief’ after statement
- First active UK male player to come out since Justin Fashanu
Blackpool forward Jake Daniels has become the UK’s first professional male football player to come out as gay since Justin Fashanu in 1990.
Daniels, 17, admitted to having hidden his sexual identity as a young man “because I wanted to be a professional footballer.” Now he says the “time is right to be myself, be free and be confident with it all.”
