‘Gay men not into sport’ not stereotyping: Francis

Rugby pundit Neil Francis has denied he was stereotyping or generalising when he claimed that up to 90% of gay men had no interest or involvement in sport.

He told Newstalk’s Off the Ball that if 10% of the population was gay, he reckoned less than 1% of professional sportsmen were.

This was, said Francis, because the environment “isn’t something they [homosexual men] are very interested in”.