Typical Guardian report and journalism in general, where is the imperical evidence to support this? what were the factors used to arrive at such an ambiguously woke outcome. When refering to intelligence was the commentator reffering to the players IQ or his footballing IQ?
I have never heard a commentator stating how ronaldinho was a robust and powerful player, it was more about his sublime skills and outrageous genius on the football pitch, the same is said of Pele, ronaldo etc. Trying to link racism when a commentator is talking about a players physical attributes is very dangerous territory imo. Quoting Billy sharpe as "cute and clever" and then Alexander Isak being criticised as " poor decision making" is not evidence, one is an attacker and one is a defender, one plays in England and the other plays in Spain, was the commentator the same for both games, was the billy sharpe comment humour, satire, sarcasm? This is not data that supports the argument.
With regards to BAME managers are we seriously expected to believe that 99.9% of chairman are sytemically racist? You can not write a report and run it off percentage stats, you must have factors that determine how you arrived at your decision. Why we do not have an abundance of black managers I do not know the answer to however,I would argue racism is not the reason, a chairman will employ any manager that will bring success to his club and give him/her a proffessional edge surely?
The BLM quote is disturbing like it or not BLM has political connotations, kick racism out of football does not, it means exactly what it is! I defy anyone football fan that does not agree with eradicating racism from the game at every level who would'nt? It is illegal for any broadcaster to openly support a political movement or party yet here we are with Sky driving it home at every opportunity, it was not until it BLM was raised in Parliament did Sky change its volume.
The acid test will be how the elite players react when they are due to fly off to Qatar to play in the world cup, a place where there is no tolerance or diversity and a country where people have died building stadia in appauling conditions, no player or pundit or media company is willing to discuss it, and if they think bending the knee will suffice they are widely wrong IMO.
To be crystal clear here any form of discrimination or racism is abhorrent and has no place in society let alone football, but this article is trying imply that people are unkowingly racist is wrong and is a inciendrous accusation to make at anyone imo.
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