Michael Gunning interviews Jake Daniels in new doc: ‘People now only really know me as the gay footballer’

Michael Gunning and Jake Daniels (Image: Provided; Azazel)

Former international swimmer Michael Gunning has debuted Beneath the Surface, a Sky Sports documentary that dives into the intersecting challenges of LGBTQ+ identity and racial discrimination in sport.

The series opener, premiering tonight (28 October) at 7pm on Sky Sports, centres on Jake Daniels, Blackpool FC’s rising star and the UK’s only out gay male professional footballer since Justin Fashanu in 1990.

Beneath the Surface, both produced and directed by Gunning, is the first instalment in Sky Sports’ new documentary series spotlighting diverse voices in sport. Produced under Sky’s New Focus Fund, the series aims to tackle issues of racial injustice, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and the pressures of breaking barriers in traditionally conservative spaces.

In it, Daniels speaks openly in the documentary about

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