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	Justin Fashanu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Justin Fashanu (February 19, 1961 – May 2, 1998) was an English footballer.
		His career stalled as his relationship with Brian Clough deteriorated; Clough, it would seem, was disturbed by the rumours of Justin Fashanu's visits to gay nightclubs and bars.
		In his suicide note, he cited the fact that he felt that he would be unfairly pre-judged as guilty of allegations that he had abused a teenage boy in America, where he had been working as a coach following his retirement from the professional game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Justin_Fashanu (258 words)

	John Fashanu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Fashanu (born September 18, 1962) is a British television presenter and ex-footballer.
		In 1988, Fashanu helped Wimbledon win the FA Cup, beating Liverpool in a final that was billed as a "rags versus riches" affair.
		Fashanu claimed two England caps - against Chile and Scotland in a friendly tournament in May 1989.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Fashanu (307 words)

	Justin Fashanu
		Justin was in a relationship with a woman at the time, but soon began visiting the gay clubs in Nottingham, where he became aware of his gay sexuality.
		Fashanu later admitted these to be false, although he did maintain a long-term friendship with former MP candidate and gay activist Peter Tatchell.
		While many in the gay community praised Fashanu for his courage, fl organizations and papers denounced his coming out as an affront to the community, and fans and members of the British football community were quick to voice their own disgust and anger.
	outcyclopedia.0catch.com /justin_fashanu.html (887 words)

	GFSN - Article - Justin Fashanu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Justin Fashanu can be credited with kicking down many barriers, though only one sticks in the mind: he was, and still is, British football's only openly gay player.
		Fashanu had steered towards self-destruction and alienation on a number of occasions throughout his career -tabloid exposes, fabricated affairs with Tory MPs, allegations of sexual assault -though the hardest to bear was football's cruel rejection of his sexuality when it was announced in 1990.
		Fashanu was sacked by his then club Aberdeen for "conduct unbecoming of a professional." Bizarrely, he would later claim he'd been persecuted by "media vultures".
	www.gfsn.org.uk /a_fashanu.htm (1495 words)

	Knitting Circle Justin Fashanu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Justin Fashanu played in the England Youth and Under 21 team and made his professional football debut at Norwich City in 1979.
		Justin Fashanu was very different: he was gay and he admitted it, a combination with which, it seemed, many people within the English national game could not cope.
		Fashanu claimed that he had not sexually assaulted the youngster, but rather that they had had consensual sex.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/justinfashanu.html (2876 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| Fashanu myth
		Fashanu and his brother, Justin, were the sons of a Nigerian barrister, who split from their mother when John was four.
		As to Fashanu's claim that he is also a sports ambassador for Nigeria, the ministry said that only the NFA secretary general, Taiwo Ogunjobi, could answer that and hung up.
		Fashanu made huge public play of trying to buy Northampton Town two years ago with the help of a Nigerian benefactor he said was like a father to him, Chief Sonny Odogwu, who is also chairman of Winners Worldwide, a football agency that Fashanu fronts.
	football.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9753,1011320,00.html (1876 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Fashanu: a rising star who faded too soon
		Justin Fashanu was the first professional footballer in Britain to openly "come out" and admit he was gay.
		Justin Fashanu was brought up by foster parents and the children's charity Barnardos.
		Justin Fashanu talked about his sexuality on TV In the early 1980s, he was a rising star at Norwich City.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/87288.stm (569 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Fashanu
		John Fashanu La Mazza Furente (born September 18, 1962) is a British television presenter and ex-footballer.
		Fashanu claimed two England caps - one against Chile in May 1989 and the second against Scotland in 1994.
		Justin Fashanu Justin Fashanu (February 19, 1961 â€“; May 2, 1998) was an English footballer.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Fashanu (812 words)

	Justin Fashanu - Nobok Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fashanuâs life ended in tragedy when he committed suicide in May 1998, but his explosive exploits in the early 1980s have guaranteed him legendary status.
		Fashanuâs growing reputation for the Carrow Road side, for whom he first appeared against West Brom in 1979, led to England caps at youth, under-21 and B levels.
		Fashanu scored three times in just 32 appearances for Cloughâs side, but fared better when a loan move to Southampton in the summer of 1982 spawned three goals in nine matches.
	www.nobok.co.uk /Football/Legends/Other/Justin%20Fashanu.aspx (411 words)

	Guardian \| Fashanu's guilt over suicide of brother
		In a suicide note, Justin Fashanu, the former England under-21 and Nottingham Forest player who in 1990 became the first professional footballer to come out as a homosexual, said he wanted to die rather than put his friends and family through any more unhappiness.
		Yesterday John Fashanu said he had not accepted Justin's sexuality, or how desperate his plight was, and the pair had not been on speaking terms for many years.
		Justin became the first £1m fl player but his career was cut short by a series of knee injuries.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4023243-103690,00.html (513 words)

	Fashanu found hanged in garage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		JUSTIN Fashanu, the former professional footballer found dead in London after fleeing from America where he faced sex charges, apparently hanged himself, police said yesterday.
		Fashanu, 37, who came out in 1990 as the sport's only openly gay player was on the run from Maryland where police had issued an arrest warrant on charges of sexual assault against a minor.
		Fashanu, who played for Norwich, Nottingham Forest and 12 other British clubs, had been living in America where he was helping to set up a professional soccer team.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/05/04/nfas04.html (344 words)

	Flown From the Nest - Justin Fashanu R.I.P.
		For a player whose early career showed so much promise, Justin Fashanu can be disappointed with the end results.
		Justin's suicide was found on Sunday May 3rd 1998 in a warehouse in East London.
		Justin fled Maryland where he was coach of the new A league side Maryland Mania.
	www.ex-canaries.co.uk /players/fashanu.htm (509 words)

	Kick It Out - Latest news
		Justin Fashanu, the elder the footballing siblings became the first fl Â£1million footballer at the age of 17, when he transferred to Brian Cloughâs Nottingham Forest from hometown club Norwich City in 1980.
		Justin was gay and it took a lot for the family to accept it.
		Fashanu told of how it effected his mother: "If you want to come out and say you are gay, or hetrosexual, have a word with your mum first as opposed to [her] picking up a newspaper [and seeing it].
	www.kickitout.org /newsstory.php?StoryID=1760&storyID=1809 (759 words)

	Justin Fashanu's final days - Brian Deer investigates 3
		Had the accused not fled, The Trial of Justin Fashanu would have convened at the Howard County Courthouse, Ellicott City, three miles north of Ashton Woods.
		With Fashanu's dead body, a suicide note was found, suggesting he would have taken that route.
		Fashanu added: "The first I heard that I was a fugitive was when I turned on the television news.
	briandeer.com /justin-fashanu-3.htm (1542 words)

	John Fashanu -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		John Fashanu (born September 18, 1962) is a (The people of Great Britain) British (Click link for more info and facts about television presenter) television presenter and ex- (An athlete who plays American football) footballer.
		Fashanu's footballing career began at (Click link for more info and facts about Norwich City) Norwich City in 1979.
		In 1988, Fashanu helped Wimbledon win the (Click link for more info and facts about FA Cup) FA Cup, beating Liverpool in a final that was billed as a "rags versus riches" affair.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/J/Jo/John_Fashanu.htm (444 words)

	Evening Standard (London): Tragedy of the boy who only wanted fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Justin continued to score goals for the youth team, whose matches were in the mornings.
		Fashanu's footballing ability was immortalised by that goal-of- the-season, which used to be in the opening sequence on Match of the Day, against Liverpool in 1980.
		Fashanu became known, behind his back, as the African Queen and was excluded from dressing- room camaraderie.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_19980506/ai_n11862405 (872 words)

	Justin Fashanu - Nottingham Forest FC - Football-Heroes.net
		John Fashanu's superb form for Norwich City during the 1980-81 season convinced Brian Clough to part with £1 million to bring him to the City Ground, but the move turned out to be an unmitigated disaster.
		It was no great secret that the Hackney-born Fashanu did not see eye to eye with manager Clough and it was no real surprise when he left the City Ground club to join local rivals Notts County in December 1982.
		Fashanu had joined Southampton on loan in August '82 but despite scoring three goals in nine League games the Saints failed to make the move permanent.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /football-heroes/displayhero_club.asp?HeroID=698 (287 words)

	Community Support: Justin Fashanu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Justin Fashanu committed suicide on 1 May 1998.
		The former England football player had been accused of molesting a young man in the USA and was convinced he would not get a fair trial.
		Justin was the victim of prejudice because of his sexuality.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /communitysupport/5212fash.htm (44 words)

	The Scotsman (Edinburgh, Scotland) : Fashanu found hanged in garage after fleeing US. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		JUSTIN Fashanu, the former football star who fled the United States last month amid allegations of sexual assault, has committed suicide.
		Fashanu, 37, had returned to Britain from the US after being charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy in Maryland.
		A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said Fashanu, the first British footballer to admit he was gay, had been found by a member of the public under a railway arch in Shoreditch on Saturday.
	static.highbeam.com /t/thescotsmanedinburghscotland/may041998/fashanufoundhangedingarageafterfleeingus/index.html (232 words)

	athlete sport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An inquest in September 1998 found officially that Justin Fashanu died by his own hand, and that tragically he did so based on misinformation.
		Fashanu's detailed suicide note said that the 17-year-old player he was accused of molesting in Maryland had had consensual sex with him and then attempted to extort money from him the next morning.
		It described Fashanu's voluntary statement to police, saying he had not been charged nor asked to surrender his passport, and that, "The first I heard that I was a fugitive was when I turned on the television news.
	gaysport.ozboxing.org /profiles/justin_fashinu.htm (579 words)

	Salon Newsreal \| The sad death of a soccer maverick
		It was a turnaround for Fashanu, who hadn't held a high-profile job since his dismissal from a Scottish team in 1994.
		Fashanu's professional troubles began in 1980, after he was signed by Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough for 1 million pounds.
		He said Fashanu had "an articulate image that impressed the impressionable" and made it difficult for Clough to "accept Fashanu as genuine and one of us." Fashanu, meanwhile, was beginning to explore Nottingham's gay scene.
	www.salon.com /news/1998/06/05news.html (1044 words)

	A moment of magic from a life of tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From Barnado's boy to soccer star to alleged sexual offender on the run, Fashanu's sorry existence, which had begun as an unwanted baby, ended in apparent suicide when he was found hanging from the rafters of a lock-up underneath a railway arch in Shoreditch.
		Justin Fashanu was not the only gay footballer in Britain, but the others will never admit their homosexuality for fear of being paraded before us as freaks.
		Plagued by guilt, Fashanu descended into the madness of a fantasy world where he tried to persuade the very same newspapers which had vilified him into handing over money for his fabricated tales of sexual escapades in the House of Commons.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/05/09/sfnrp09.html (528 words)

	Justin Fashanu's final days - Brian Deer investigates 2
		Fashanu said that he was concerned about publicity, because he was waiting on news of a job.
		Fashanu hadn't used a condom in the offence.
		With Fashanu missing, there was no chance of silencing those who gossiped that DJ was willing.
	briandeer.com /justin-fashanu-2.htm (1196 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| John Fashanu bounces back
		Mr Fashanu said no-one had ever asked him to fix a result and said it would be impossible to do such a thing.
		Justin was signed up to Norwich football club aged 14, but it was not long before John followed in his footsteps.
		Fashanu said he had been upset that Justin had told a newspaper about his sexuality, rather than telling his family directly.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/264434.stm (429 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Justin Fashanu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Of Nigerian descent, Justinus Soni Fashanu was born in Shoreditch, London, the elder son of a Nigerian law student and of a Guyanese nurse.
		In 1990, he was the first professional Britain soccer player - and still the only one - to come out as gay in The News of the World, a British tabloid paper, and in the London tabloid "The Sun"; he supposedly claimed to have had political boyfriends in the House of Commons.
		After the collapse of his footbal career, Fashanu went into a self-destructive spiral, and eventually committed suicide; his body found hanging in an abandoned garage in Shoreditch, East London.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biof1/fash1.html (409 words)

	John Fashanu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		John Fashanu is a British television presenter and ex- footballer.
		In 1989, Fashanu helped Wimbledon win the FA Cup, beating Liverpool in a final that was billed as a "rags versus riches" affair.
		Since retirement Fashanu has also maintained his sporting connections, becoming involved with the Nigerian FootballAssociation, and as chairman of Welsh football team Barry Town.
	www.therfcc.org /john-fashanu-124706.html (267 words)

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