Zero tolerance approach needed towards homophobia in sports, especially football, arguably the most hostile towards athlete with that sexual orientation.
The parliamentary select committee for culture, media and sport claims that football has a particularly hostile culture of homophobia, as compared with other sports.
The report has highlighted football in being extremely antagonistic towards homosexuality, illustrated by the fact that there are no openly gay professional male players in British football. They said football has a “problematic” history with homophobia, with anti-gay chants “relatively commonplace” at games and homophobic leaflets reported to have been handed out outside West Ham United’s ground in 2016.