David Beckham has said he is glad football has improved since the prejudice he saw in his playing days. “I played for 22 years, I saw a lot of racism and homophobia and do think it has changed” he told The Londoner’s Diary . “But there’s still a lot of work to be done.”
Beckham said of Blackpool’s Jake Daniels, who came out as the first gay current player this month: “It’s a shame that when someone does come out that it’s such a strange thing. I’ve always felt that way about when someone does come out… it shouldn’t be”. He went on: “At the end of the day there will be a huge amount of gay people in sports and why should they be any different from anyone else.”
