FelindreJack said:
That’s fair enough, I’m not clued up on the state of grassroots football in the UK enough to really comment on it. Obviously, as a white male, I wouldn’t understand the difficulties black/Asian women face getting in to football or why they face these difficulties. Would it be nice to see more minorities in football? Of course it would, so long as when it comes to the professional game, the squads are picked on the quality of the player, not to be inclusive and to not offend anyone, that’s the point I’m trying to make. Maybe the clip cut short like that makes it look worse than what it actually is.
So just to check, despite not being clued up on the women’s game your reaction was:
“ Oh this sh*t is going too far now. A lack of diversity? They won the game 8-0 for f*ck sake. Would they rather they field a team of players of black/Asian descent who may not be as good as those who played? As a manager, a fan or a player, you want your team picked on quality, not the colour of their skin just to keep the PC police happy. Would she have mentioned anything if the starting 11 and 5 subs were all black? Absolutely not, the world is going mad and I want no part of it.”
The issue she raises is presumably something to do with the historic problems with racism in the England women’s set up and the effect that perhaps has on young kids wanting to start playing.
Given the racial profile of players in the men’s game, the fact that the women’s game is dominated by white players is presumably due to some sort of difference in the way it’s structured. It may be that the game is more centred around the middle classes than the men’s game (which would have an effect in the numbers of people playing from a minority ethnic background) or it may be that young girls of minority ethnic background are not being encouraged at a young age so don’t progress through the ranks.
Whatever it is, and even if it’s simply an anomaly, to assume that a leading player of the women’s game has comments which should be dismissed so contemptuously by someone who, in their own words, knows nothing about it, is ridiculous.
Fed up of hearing about the ‘PC police’ to be honest. Oh, and if the team was all black there would be many on here and elsewhere that would reckon it was because the6 were being selected due to positive discrimination rather than talent. That would again, be ‘PC gone mad’.
