If a footie fan is convicted they can get, if it's considereed bad enough, a banning order from grounds. That's right, isn't it? So why shouldn't that be open to the magistrates for footballers? As far as I can see it's precisely the same as, say a cab driver getting banned for drink-driving...
I think the best way to respond to this is for the gay community to tease him. Imagine how someone like CKR would feel if the editor of the Gay Times ran an article about the hottest professional footballers and they chose to put CKR on the front of their magazine. For a homophobe like CKR that...