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In all seriousness, fair play to the bloke. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25628806

Fair play, although as mentioned previously somewhere it shouldn't matter.

This. But the Stonewall's Director of Campaign's name made me smile...

Well done to him for being brave enough to come out. Still waiting for the first currently playing bloke to though. Wonder if anyone's taking bets on it?

Yeah, it shouldn't matter, but as there is no-one who is openly gay in professional football it obviously does.

An active player in this country would need some balls, opposing fans would rip them to shreds during games.

That American fella who came out after he left Leeds is still playing for LA Galaxy but I guess that is one of the most liberal cities going so doubt he gets any grief.

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Did they look for his most stereotypically camp picture or what?

DER HAMMER! Fair play to the guy, but as above it really shouldn't be an issue!

I didn't know he had made so many appearances for the national team

Did he ever go down with Villa?

As a standalone tag this headline is fine, but not sure about it in response to the news that has broken:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/08/thomas-hitzlsperger-der-hammer-villa-west-ham-everton

"Thomas Hitzlsperger: 'Der Hammer' who was never afraid of a challenge"

David Villa???

Heh, heh!

Do we have any gay loud-and-proud TEF's?

A quick search of gay bars in Swindon elicits two entries:

The MailCoach and The Pink Rooms. Also I see there is a gay sauna in the town centre.

http://www.mailcoachswindon.com/

http://www.thepinkrooms.co.uk/  - opens until 6am!!!!! Any other venue in Swindon licensed that late? "Round for a Pound (Buy a round at normal price and get the same round later for £1)"


Take care the missus aint around when opening the above links and make sure to clear your cache.

Suju goes til 6:00...a few TEFers have been known to frequent the Pink Rooms, including myself.

Faggots the lot of you

I know a lot of straigh blokes who go to pink rooms, some tef-ers even

I do like a nice faggot. Not the Brains frozen shit, but decent ones from the butchers. With chips and mushy peas, gert lush.

Me and the Mrs got refused admission to the pink rooms about two years ago.

Well she was steaming and clinging onto me for grim death. I wouldn't have let her in either and i was as sure as fuck not going in on my own. Just to clear up any misconceptions we were meeting her mate who was in there on some do to do with her son who worked in there. Why i even considered it i have no idea.

What did you expect was going to happen?

Devon savouries(spolling  :-[) in Market st used to do lush faggots.
Best eaten cold,straight out of the greaseproof paper.

haha thats brought back funny memories from my childhood. We used to buy some and throw them at people off the top of the multi storey car park.

Is that the bakery where the old bloke used to shout 'Adver' in a way that sounded nothing like 'Adver'?

The row of shops by the tented market.

Did he just shout it to you?

Did it sound anything like 'Clucking Tanker'?

I swear someone else must be remember the guy who used to sell the Adver on the corner by the bakery on the Parade(?)... he used to shout incomprehensibly aimed at nobody in particular.

It had a proper roof  in them days,or was it a car park?  :"Harrys cut price" was on the end of the market before it became a car park and it reverted back to a market(tented).
Was a while ago and the offy near the Rolleston sold Thunderbird . Happy days.

Little old fella,on the corner by Mcilroys.?
Sounded like he wash shouting  "envelopes".

Always followed by "yap yap yap yap yap"

He's been mentioned on the TEF before I think.  He had a child when he was 80? Or am I making it up?

talking mid to late 80'a so it was a car park then.

Is sonic on about the yab yab man? Old boy who fathered a kid well into his 70's

Of course. It wasn't a trip to Swindon without hearing him. Used to stand by the bakery nearish Debenhams. I too though that bakery was Devon Savouries. They used to do a mean cheese and ham pastry thing.

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Jimmy Wagstaff apparently

http://www.talkswindon.org/index.php?topic=7834.0

I remember him from a young age. Mum used to work in Jewellers just across from where he sold / shouted on the parade. She had a plan to shoot him on more than one occasion.

My mate once asked him if they stuffed new batteries up his arse every weekend.

"Fuck off" was his witty reply.

Please dear god tell me that the last post relates to the Adver man and not the topic :-)

I was wondering too...

Them gays would be all over him like a rash, they just can't help themselves you know. Proper gay gorgeous is fatbasher. Lovely 'tache and leather chaps.

A few drinks then fuck off home? it was pissing late and at my age i'm no night owl.

Nope and the bird was quiet a fit little thing....

It was.  At one point there were three Devon Savouries.  One by the market, one at the top of town and one by the Adver man that Sonic mentioned.

Did they go out of business?  They were nicer than Greggs.

To be fair, eating the Advers sold by the guy who has bafflingly taken over this thread that (briefly) started out as being about openly gay footballers would be nicer than Greggs.

Is the adver man the bloke who used to stand near what used to be Cheltenham and Gloucester building society?

I only remember the yab yab man from down opposite tesco and debenhams by the now gone alleyway that led towards fleet street, where the public toilets were.
I thought the bakery by mcilroys was called Swiss chalet ?

Thomas Hitzlsperger has bravely come out & said he once played for West Ham !!!!

That is exactly where he stood. Millets was on the corner of the alleyway. I remember those toilets, they had that horrible tracing paper for bog roll.

I wouldn't wangt to suggest that she was a little gold digger, but that fithy old newspaper seller did win a few hundred grand on the pools when in his 70's

Mention of Devon Savouries took me immediately back to my yoof.....they did great pasties with a really good crumbly pastry.  Guess they disappeared when the Greggs of this world took over.

As for gay footballers.....why the hell is it still some sort of embarrassed, under the counter type reposnse, especially from the media?  Is football really still that macho?

So he had loads of cash and was getting balls deep with a fitty into his 70's. Result!!!!