As Manchester City win a fourth Premier League title in five years, we meet the talismanic midfielder with the world at his feet, a Gucci ambassadorship and the kind of megawatt charm that’ll burn through English football for the next decade.
Yesterday, the Blackpool player publicly came out – the first professional player to do so since Justin Fashanu in 1990. While there’s loads more work left to do to tackle homophobia in sport, this is a huge win for the future of football.
Ahead of Saturday’s final, THE FACE went down to Wembley Stadium to ask footie fans one all-important question: what’s wetting your whistle?
There has still not been another openly gay Black footballer since Justin Fashanu. Twenty-four years on from his death, the one thing that resonates most strongly throughout his story is the silence.
A new exhibition from Martin Parr, Corbin Shaw and OOF magazine spotlights the footie fan. Who are ya?
To celebrate adidas’ latest Spezial collection, we tackled Arsenal’s ace defender on all sorts. And no, we didn’t stick the boot in.
