.@GraemeLeSaux14 says @Robbie9Fowler has apologised for mocking him in 1999 (Here's the original story: http://t.co/Z8X40btT62 ) #r4today
— BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) January 9, 2014
Over to you Andy…
For much of my career, reading The Guardian was used as one of the most powerful symbols of how I was supposed to be weirdly different. Pathetic, really. It gave substance to the gossip that I was homosexual: Guardian reader equals gay boy. Some people really thought that added up.
Andy Townsend got on the bus to a game and saw me reading the paper, picked it up and said he wanted to look at the sport. He threw it back down a couple of seconds later. “There’s no f***ing sport in here,” he said. The rest of the lads laughed.
Graeme Le Saux: How Gay Slurs Almost Wrecked My Career (The Times, 2007)
