Leeds United striker Patrick Bamford believes an openly gay Premier League player would be embraced in the dressing room - but says there is still work to do in eradicating homophobic abuse from the crowd.
Bamford, 28, spoke in Channel 4's 'Football's Coming Out' documentary, released on Tuesday, in which he said that 'nothing should change' in a dressing room if a team-mate decided to come out as gay.
At present there remains no openly gay players active in the Premier League.
Sharing his thoughts on how a player might go about the process of coming out as LGBTQ+ and how he and fellow players in his team might react, Bamford said: 'I would imagine that if someone were to come out as gay, a player would go to the captain and confide in the captain.