Player Salaries and Contracts Compared to Today

A campaign to install a statue of Justin Fashanu at Carrow Road. The first pro footballer to come out as gay. May 16, 1998 ... Britain's first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu hanged himself earlier this month in a garage in east London. His was a life full of contradictions. Feb 10, 2025 ... Justin Fashanu: The First Openly Gay Footballer ⚽🏳️‍ In 1990, Justin Fashanu became the first professional footballer to come out as gay—but ... Sep 20, 2013 ... The last time he'd seen Patrick Fashanu was almost twenty years earlier when the footballer had been a toddler. It was 1963 and Patrick left ... Feb 28, 2021 ... British football player Justin Fashanu would have turned 60 last week. Instead, he has been dead for over two decades now — a victim of ... Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay footballer, Justin Fashanu. In 1981 Brian ... Four decades later Justin Fashanu remains top flight English football's only ... Sep 21, 2020 ... In a letter via the Justin Fashanu Foundation the player says football has 'not moved on' Jun 4, 2021 ... This extract from Isabel Waidner's novel Sterling Karat Gold takes the form of a letter to footballer Justin Fashanu. Jul 6, 2010 ... Justin Fashanu - not only the first openly gay footballer, but the first black player to command a £1 million transfer fee - committed suicide. Oct 8, 2017 ... A new film revealing the troubled life of Britain's first millionaire black footballer with links to Westminster was released on Friday.