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Of course it’s less valid.

So your example is historical not current then?

Oh believe me pal I’ve had quite a few jibes and spiteful comments about having black friends, usually from people who preach about racism all the time

I hope you took this up with the appropriate people within your organisation to address this issue.

It’s geographical and demographics plain and simple. Local league sport tends to be played by people from the local community. As for the YCC that’s a different case entirely as they have a history of being shall we say, questionable views. Still doesn’t change the fact that I really don’t believe these days they wouldn’t pick someone because of their skin colour.

Coloured people = racist people of colour = absolutely fine 🤷🏽‍♂️

I’ve got a few black friends but I get called racist if I mention it on here 🤣

there is a large Asian population but it’s very condensed into two or three areas. Yorkshire is a huge county outside of The cities a lot of it rural. When you say not encouraged I’m really not sure what you mean and it doesn’t make sense. I can’t imagine village teams have any need to go on recruitment drives in Bradford, in fact with a lot of locally football and cricket teams it’s a struggle to get in. My son is 8 and we had to try about 20 football teams before we found one with a space for him next season. equally, can’t imagine any Asians in Bradford would have any desire to travel 50 miles every week for a game of cricket with a load of bloke they don’t know when they can join a team on their doorstep. That’s the reality.

We all know that’s the reality but that doesn’t suit the current narrative

Extraordinary because it’s not true. I live in Yorkshire and know quite a few people associated with clubs or play cricket. Plenty of people of colour playing in Yorkshire cricket leagues. Yorkshire is a bloody big county when One of the main issues is what you alluded to earlier regarding access to teams. Most but not all of the cricket clubs here are from villages and towns with an overwhelmingly white population, so by default the vast majority of teams are white. Go to parts of Leeds and Bradford and there are plenty of Asian and black players but they are a minority not because no club wants them but someone from Bradford isn’t going to drive 60 miles to play for a village team In Pickering where they don’t know anyone. They would have set this league up based on geographical and demographics not because no one wants any Asians in their teams

Good team with a good manager. Also another one of our bogey teams. Point would be a good result.

I don’t particularly like Palace but I’d like to see him do well because he was a brilliant player who I loved and part of one of my favourite ever non saints teams and seems like a decent bloke, not because hes black. I would question the motives of anyone keen to see him do well just because he’s black.

Maybe someone should remind him what skin colour the manager of the team currently top of the premier league is.

Being black didnt appear to stop Ruud Guilt and Frank Rijkard both managing two pretty big clubs in Chelsea and Barcelona somehow.

If it is the players then why didn’t the premier league based players who aren’t English take the knee at the Euros?

What winds me and may others up is being preached to by self righteous cunts like soggy who never see a black person but are endlessly preaching about how bad it all is and how they are speaking out against it, by posting on a football Internet forum, saving the world one post at a time 🤣 imo these white, middle class people are the worst. Live in leafy white towns an villages yet have this superiority complex that they know what is needed to fix all the worlds problems. Talking down to anyone who doesn’t agree with them and a patronising they need our help POCs, desperate to show their outrage at any possible opportunity to show how much they care but not actually doing anything other than talk about it. There are thousands of them. Just got to look at the Soppy middle class students all over every movement these days.

Correct “anti anti racism” 😃

There are pills for that pal

I don’t think anyone is anti racism. What people are fed up with is the fact that Britain in particular is probably the least racist it’s ever been yet not a day goes by when there isn’t some headline or some loon screaming racism about something. People lap it up and jump on the bandwagon with everyone competing with each other to be the most outraged by it all. Does racism exist, yes. Should it exist, no. But do we need it rammed down our throats day in day out that in a country of 60m people everyone and everything isn’t as perfect as some ideology would like it to be? I genuinely cannot remember in real life someone making a racist comment in my presence but this moral outrage is doing more harm than good.

Randomly I used to know a Nantwich player. I used to work for a company whose head office was in Crewe and he worked there. I thought you’d like to know that irrelevant but at the same time intriguing story

You don’t half talk some bollocks

Don’t you have anything better to do on a Friday night than post about what other people are posting?

Answer the question, you had a go at me for not doing it so practice what you preach pal

Hi Sue, thanks for dipping in. you seem to forget to sign in and end up reading my posts an awful lot. You also always seem to end up commenting as well and calling me names, something I’ve never done to anyone on here. Nice to see you’ve announced you’ve got me on ignore again though 🤣

Here he goes waving the imaginary card in the air 🤣🙄