Daily Star: Fantasy Football

How the Daily Star have teasingly framed a story pinched from yesterday's Observer about a claim that eight players have approached the Professional Footballers Association saying they're gay but are worried about coming out.
Best line? Chris Basiurski, chair of the Gay Football Supporters’ Network; “The worry is that fans will start getting on their backs..." 
The Star doesn't credit the Observer, natch, and there doesn't seem to be much to the story bar what's stated in the original headline - 'Eight footballers say 'we're gay' but keep quiet in fear of fans' - and some speculation.
Oh, and this number is strangely down from 2008 when a Daily Star front page "revealed" there were '12 Gay Premier Football Stars'. 
Which would mean the number's dropped by a third - should we blame the recession?
Not that I'm suggesting sometimes they make stuff like this up. 
Ho hum.