Chris Dunlavy

Cricket woe is clear warning to football

by
The LeaguePaper Team
21 November 2021

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

THE testimony of Azeem Rafiq brought Yorkshire to its knees and shook English cricket to its foundations.
But nobody should delude themselves that discrimination is confined to cork and willow.
Rafiq’s tales of racism and bigotry echo uncomfortably across the entire sporting landscape.
Football must listen, and listen hard.
Cricket spent a lot of years thinking it didn’t have a problem. It wasn’t until 2018 that the ECB launched a taskforce to understand why, despite people of South Asian heritage accounting for 30 per cent of club players in the...

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