‘VASE CAN BE A STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION’

By SAM ELLIOTT
Openly gay Liam makes history

THERE was an instant midway through the first half where Wembley held its breath. We probably didn’t recognise it at the time, but it was a bigger moment for the game as a whole than anyone may have noticed.
Cleethorpes’ Liam Davis, the first openly gay male to ever play at Wembley Stadium, had just ploughed into South Shields’ Jon Shaw.
Late, careless and negligent, the rash midfielder was rightly booked. Then, he was rightly booed by the 13,000 travelling supporters.
But that is where it stopped. You feared the worst for Da...

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