Just black and white

The Mirror has really got my blood up by trying to make an issue out of nothing. According to them the whole of football is racist.

What a load of bollocks, but you’d expect nothing less from The Mirror.
They confuse the population of the UK, the administration of the game in the UK, the managers in the Premiership and the players playing in the UK, as coming from one unique pot. They don’t.

They start by saying football is racist because only one of twenty Premiership chairman is non white. Premiership chairman are Premiership chairman because they are rich, not because of their colour.
Twelve months ago nobody in Britain had heard of Roman Abramovich, despite him being the 27th richest man in the world, now he’s a household name because he ‘bought’ Chelsea.

There are 20 teams in the Premiership and none has a black coach at the moment, but a couple of seasons back Ruud Gullit and Jean Tigana where both coaching and both where black. Results didn’t go well and they both left their jobs, it happens.

They say former Liverpool star John Barnes can’t find a management job since getting fired by Celtic. Despite being a complete disaster as Celtic coach, Barnes has regular work presenting for Channel Five.
They say ex-Arsenal player Paul Davis didn’t get the reserve team coach position at Arsenal because of ‘racist attitudes’.
This is the same Arsenal that were one of the first teams in Britain to field black players back in the early 80’s and who a couple of seasons ago started a game with nine black players.

The non-white population of Britain was something like 8% at the last census, most arriving in the last thirty to forty years. Only now are their offspring reaching the age where they would have grown up in the UK,had sporting careers and possibly be at the stage to move into running the game.

To me the football authorities in this country bend over backwards to be inclusive and if there’s a racist element in society, football can’t cure that alone.
But I guess that doesn’t fit The Mirror agenda.

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