Quotes

I'd hate to have a real job after all these years.

"Today, image is everything. Reality seldom comes into it." (Speaking in 2006)

It's a very sad state of affairs. But it's a fact that homophobia in football is as strong now as it was 10 years ago. If you'd asked me in 2000 whether I thought we'd have a famous, openly gay footballer by 2010 I would have said yes. You look across society and see openly gay people in music, movies, television, politics, the clergy, and it's not a problem, nor in many sports. It's not that footballers are homophobic but the fans can be vicious. I've had two high-profile Premier League football clients in the past five years who've been gay or bisexual and my advice has been not to make that public. For a top player to come out, I would envisage they'd be a hard man, with an established reputation, and perhaps a year or two at most left in the game, so if coming out brought too much hardship, it wouldn't matter so much professionally.

[Chat show, called out] I didn't say that, but if you want to say that I did then good luck to you.

Oh, no-one would do that, would they? "You're a famous Footballer, you're a Pretty Pop Star, why not get together?"