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Apparently Gareth Thomas is gay.

What - you hadn't heard?

Obviously not content with the largely measured "fair enough" non-reaction to his coming out from the rugby public at large, barely a day goes by now without Thomas appearing in the press somewhere to declare how his coming out was the best thing that ever happened to him, how great his life now is, how Mickey Rourke wants to make a movie about him, how Manchester should host a gay rugby tournament, how wonderful it is to be the only gay in the village...

Seriously, Gareth, enough already. We get the message.

What's it all about, Alfie?

The admission by Gareth Thomas at the weekend that he was a fan of musical theatre has barely caused a ripple outside the readership of the Daily Mail. Not, I suspect, because rugby is so very grown up and tolerant nowadays but more because Alfie's tastes have for a while been an "open secret" within the game.

Frankly this blog couldn't care less which way the chap leans - what is of more concern is the role Thomas played in the sacking of Mike Ruddock from the post of Wales head coach in 2006 - something that still hasn't been adequately explained.

Most commentators have declared that Alfie's admissions are "brave" - but you do have to wonder what prompted his decision to go public given that he'd long since come out to friends and family and that most of the rugby fraternity already knew his "secret." Nothing to do with the cash on offer from the Daily Mail?