Antony Cotton
EDENFIELD-born actor Antony Cotton has claimed every football team in the Premier League has ‘two or three’ gay players.
Antony, who has played Coronation Street’s first gay character, Sean Tully since 2003, made the claim in a national newspaper.
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“If there are 22 footballers in a squad, by the law of average there will be two or three gay footballers in every single team.
“Do I know any gay footballers? Of course. We all know gay footballers, everyone knows a gay footballer.
“There are hundreds of them, not one or two.”
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