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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Tom Victor

English football's most prominent gay manager on rising to challenge of changing attitudes

Luke Tuffs, the most prominent gay manager in England's football pyramid, has suggested more needs to be done to change the approach of those at the top of the game for making gay players and managers welcome.

There are only a handful of gay players in the men's game, with Australian youth international Josh Cavallo among the most prominent after he came out in 2021, and the same goes for managers.

Tuffs is in charge of Leatherhead, who play in the Isthmian League - the seventh tier of English football - and he believes attitudes are changing among his own generation.

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