After being fined for using homophobic language, five-time Premier League champion Patrice Evra now claims that several West Ham players also wanted gay teammates kicked out of the team.
Asked why he believes there are no openly-gay footballers in the Premier League, Evra added: ‘Because they are scared. It took me more than 35 years to say I was sexually abused.
Evra was fined £890 and ordered to pay £1,780 in compensation to two anti-hate campaign groups following comments he made after Manchester United’s Champions League victory over Paris Saint-Germain in 2019.‘I’m hurt because this doesn’t represent me,’ he said. ‘Yes, I used vulgar language because when I was growing up this was normal. It makes me think I have so much to learn but I will keep learning.
‘It’s painful because it’s not who I am. I made a mistake. In my youth it was not a mistake and now it is. Since that incident I have never used those words.
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