SIR IAN MCKELLEN thinks Jake Daniels has scored a goal before so much as getting on the pitch - by having the confidence to come out as gay.
No wonder so many of us, gay and everyone else, admire & treasure him as a hero. What a goal he’s scored!Sir Ian wrote on Twitter:"At 17, @Jake_Daniels11 represents a generation that rejects old-fashioned homophobia in football and elsewhere: those who haven’t yet grown up as he has.
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