English football still racist

[Tom Bombadil]

English football is exclusively run by a white elite, despite the large number of black players in the higher echelons of the game, according to a new report by the Commission for Racial Equality.
Every member of the FA board and the 92-strong FA council is white, and people from ethnic minorities are vastly under-represented at all levels across the non-playing side of the game, the report suggests. Non-white faces make up less than 1% of positions off the field, whether in boardrooms, management or the coaching staff - and less than 2% of supporters on the terraces.


etc etc, full story on Guardianunlimited (surprizingly )

 

[WATFORD O]

well they can go f*** themselves. Football is the most multi cutural game on earth.

 

[bhafc4eva]

Ive mentioned this before, i havent seen a black at a brighton game in about 4 years. Last time i saw one was QPR away and he had a cockney accent.

 

[Titanic]

Super Rodney Thomas was often a spectator.

 

[Biscuit]

f*** sake.

If you want to get a good job these days it seems you stand a better chance if you black and you're gay. "English football is exclusively run by a white elite" well maybe that's because it just so happens that these peope are good at their jobs, I hardly think they were picked because of the colour of their skin, and I doubt they would consider giving a job to a white man over a black man. This pisses me of so much.

Just because their is a large percentage of black players bears no corilation to the number of plack people at the top level. People are picked on merit.

A good example is primary schools. You SHOULD get the job depending on your ability to TEACH. But since most primary schools have so FEW male teachers, male primary teachers are often given the priority over equally as capable females.

You don't need to be 'represented' because this RACISM mith is just that, a mith.

Boring, low class, run of the mill, yawnable and toshy journolism.

 

[Marc]

I beleive football *IS* racist, I went opn a weeks trial for BHA but they turned me down, Bob Booker himself said:

"You're allwhite, but not good enough!"

what does THAT say about the game

 

[fatboy]

Who gives a flying f*** whether players/managers/FA staff are black or white?

We don't need to share the jobs out equally amongst different colours. Imagine if Mark McGhee had to pick his team with 5 blacks and 5 whites. Ridiculous.

*I watched England U20's last night and our keeper looked Asian.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

I do get pissed off with this recurring notion that if the "elite" of an establishment, be it the FA or the Police, are overwhelmingly white in colour, they are automatically racist - they are there because they're the best for their jobs, not because of their skin colour! It seems a mite hypocritical for these reports to talk of racism when they're the only ones bringing skin colour into the equation.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

It seems a mite hypocritical for these reports to talk of racism when they're the only ones bringing skin colour into the equation.

Congratulations for winning the stupid sentence of the day award.

 

[fatboy]

Surely there are more white people than black people in this country (I bet someone will call me racist for that) so the law of averages would follow that there will be more white people in any given sample of people.

 

[Dave the OAP]

yes but the Comission For Racial Equality hierachy are all black or Asian, so they are inherantly institutionally racist themselves

PC will be the death of this country

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

Congratulations for winning the stupid sentence of the day award.

Pray why? Trevor Phillips and his cronies continuously create alleged "racist" situations where none exist, which does no-one any good.

 

[Easy 10]

Congratulations for winning the stupid sentence of the day award.

Hey, no fair.
I've hardly been about today to enter the competition.

 

[Smithers-Jones]

Imagine if Mark McGhee had to pick his team with 5 blacks and 5 whites. Ridiculous.

What colour would the other player be?!?!

 

[Dave the OAP]

green

 

[perth seagull]

What colour would the other player be?!?!

Asian as in Zesh Rehman...Noooooooo!

 

[Rusthall Seagull]

Ive mentioned this before, i havent seen a black at a brighton game in about 4 years. Last time i saw one was QPR away and he had a cockney accent.

Is that a black person or something different...?? Last time you saw 'one' what?

 

[Raphael Meade]

Ive mentioned this before, i havent seen a black at a brighton game in about 4 years. Last time i saw one was QPR away and he had a cockney accent.

really?? i thought all darkies spoke with jamaican accents?

 

[beorhthelm]

Havent read the article here, but watched a program a while ago on the subject, focusing on the lack of black managers/coaches etc in the game in relation to the number of black players. John Barnes was on it and told of how he experienced prejudice from chairman and board members of other clubs. Ian Wright said he'd looked at going into the England set up, but there where issues with people in the FA. Viv Anderson was another saying there where problems.

I suppose there's still alot of a much older generation still about in club boardrooms and the footballing authorities. i dont think it was vindictive or anything, but they where made to feel uncomfortable.

But then again, where they looking at teh wrong places, the establishment where old habit do die hard. but im sure they'd be some clubs a bit more receptive and progressive than other clubs might be. I really cant imagine a problem for a black coach at Brighton or Charlton for example.

What im getting at is, is there a genuine deep set problem within the game as a whole, or is it a perceived problem that puts off black players from going into coaching?

 

[Sorrel]

The stupidity in the story is the equating of percentages of people of any "race" in a group with the cause for this situation being racism.

If I selected a random crowd of people in the street, but didn't have any Sri Lankans in the crowd, would this mean that the crowd itself was racist against Sri Lankans? Would it mean I was?

Of course not. Look back sixty years, and almost everyone was white and of British origin. Does this mean we can work out exactly how less racist we are now than then? We could, but it would be a meaningless figure.

A better example would be to compare the number of ex-players over 35 in the country that are white and live in Britain, and the number of ex-players over 35 that are of a different "race" and live in Britain, and then see how this compares to the percentage of white to non-white managers in the game. That might provide a slightly more sensible figure to examine for evidence of "racism", but would remain about 87% meaningless drivel.