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Albion fans? No. But for there to actually be no problem an openly gay player would have to be able to play in, say, Burnley v Millwall without anyone mentioning his sexuality in commentary. That's not quite where we're at.

Because their Parliamentary colleagues will have to support them or risk being taken to pieces in The Guardian and potentially losing a substantial gay vote. Whereas the footballers' worst nightmare will see him ostracised by his team mates, not picked and abused by both sets of fans.

There was no real media storm around Gareth Thomas in rugby or Steven Davies in cricket. A few newspaper stories, some mostly kind words and done. Both continued playing. I believe this would not happen in football. It's perfectly valid to question why.

An interesting question. To an extent you HAVE to talk about the chanting to put the other issues in to perspective. Personally the chants don't offend me because I don't find being called gay offensive. I grew up in an era where, terrace chant wise, Northerners were all unemployed wife...