19th May Footballer comes out

In a watershed moment for Britsh sports, 23 yr old professional Footballer, Gizza Pass, has hit a screamer right into the top corner by coming out of the changing rooms to revealing that he is in fact intelligent.

In making this monumental move, one that has blunted the popular press who seemed keen that it must be a Premier League player who was the first to be exposed as being a brain box, Blackpool's Gizza Pass is the first professional player in British men's football to come out publicly as being clever whilst still playing the beautiful game. 

 

The last player rumoured to potentially be a right old clever clogs by his fellow professionals was Blackburn Rover's left back, Graeme Le Saux, who according to an urban myth was spotted once right at the back of the team bus removing his post match fish and chips from the newspaper so that he could complete the sudoku and cryptic crossword.

 

Speaking exclusivly to Grace Under Pressure, Gizza Pass revealed himself to our shocked reporter by announcing, "I always felt that I had to hide my academic prowess in order to become a professional footballer. I knew from a very early age that I was different to the other lads, but I didn't want to stand out. How could I explain that I have 11 GCSE's, four A* A levels and am currently studying for a degree in Psychology at the Open University."

"I had to laugh when my team mates actually thought Fyodor Dostoevsky played for Borussia Dortmund and that quinoa was a place in Ibiza. It was a real mental stain reigning in my natural flair of using metaphor, allegory and similies on the traing ground and just constraining my answers to words of a single syllable or a simple grunt." 

"Whilst coming out as being intelligent has been long established in skating, tennis, swimming and even rugby, football it seems remained that last bastion of 'clevercloggsphobia' where anyone who doesn't use the phrases 'over the moon' or 'gutted' in a post match interview was immediately viewed with suspiscion."

"Even though I am only 23 and have only played two games for the 1st team I thought I was going to have to retire as a closeted intellectual but the mental stress of pretending to be interested in The One Show rather than a BBC 4 program about renaissance French art proved unsustainable. Now I feel relieved to announce to the world that not only do I know how to make a quiche but I can spell it as well."

Gizza Pass has recieved messages of support from players, staff, supporters and armchair pundits from all around the footballing world. The BBC's very own poacher at the back door, Gary Lineker, was quick to tweet his support and love for Gizza although obviously in a purely hetrosexual alpha male manner and not in any way, shape or form that could be construed as being a bit gay.