Well, yes, that’s what I was thinking. We have one or two thickos but all the glory fans have buggered off back to Gillette Soccer Saturday years ago. I’d be very surprised indeed if anyone abused him. I’m not sure anyone really cares, which, actually, I think is a good thing. Non-league football is a different world, and by different world I mean it’s more like the REAL world.
I saw a tweet from Marc at the Echo earlier to Ian Herbert disagreeing with a point in his article, saying that non-league players are more likely to be accepting of gay players as they have lives and jobs outside of football and are more rounded individuals. I think that’s absolutely true, and it also applies to the fans.
Non-league supporters, in my experience at least, tend not to be like some of the more rabid obsessives you find up higher up the pyramid, the narrow-minded kind who live in a little myopic bubble and detest anything and everything that exists outside of it. They will no doubt greet the first professional gay player with spittle-flecked vitriol. But, odd idiot aside, I don’t think Liam has too much to worry about.