Apparently "they cannot be named due to legal reasons"
i.e. they're making it all up.

Anyway, who cares? I'm sure there are plenty of gay footballers, to be honest out of that many men it would be pretty weird if there wasn't. Why should it be headline news?
( Fergburger, Mon 13 Feb 2006, 11:25, archived)

Cos we dun want some fackin pooves playing a real mans sport
/average notw reader
( comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Mon 13 Feb 2006, 11:26, archived)

Exactly
It is common knowledge that the welsh and french rugby teams are a big bunch of gays but no-one makes a big deal out of it.
( Fish, My keyboard has dsylexia built in., Mon 13 Feb 2006, 11:27, archived)

Google Image Search for 'french rugby team' with SafeSearch off
But don't do it at work.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Mon 13 Feb 2006, 11:30, archived)

with the Welshers
at least their forwards, it's not so much the gayness as the family lineage. You know, dad was a Valley boy and a miner, mum was a Leicester Longwool.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 13 Feb 2006, 11:31, archived)