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Confusion

Yep to all of that. I believe that he also said that black people are in fact over represented in football as against Asian people. Also correct. Indeed, he could have gone further and said that black people are over represented in football in terms of the proportion of black players to the population. No doubt there may be factors why black people excel in football and rightly achieve their potential, and on the opposite side of the coin, good reason why black people / Asian people / females /etc don't do so well in certain areas of society.

Skilful ones too. Not £25m ones though.

All girls are different, I can only say what mine were like. Based on their experience, I can accept what Clarke was told, and in the context of the forum, why he raised it. People in authority cannot be fearful of giving anecdotes and explanations in case it breaches some unwritten social rules.

That William Fish must surely be known as Billy the Fish. Poor lad.

Looming

I'm not with you on this. It's not hard to understand that the issues are personal, and it's reasonable to assume that they are of a sensitive nature. We have absolutely no right to know any more, and it won't help the fella for it be put into the public domain. There are too many insensitive fans putting their perceived need for information above the actual needs of a human being.

Because in the context of why girls don't come into the game and become goalkeepers, it's entirely correct to give an explanation as to why girls don't come into the game and become goalkeepers. When the truth offends and can't be spoken, there is a problem. I believe what he was told. I have 2 daughters and tried to get them into footy. They hated getting the ball booted at them. And getting muddy. And getting cold. They both quit. One went on to do dance, and the other trampolining. Very well in fact. In the real world, the reality often matches the stereotypes.

Scaffold

Brilliant interview. Nice insight into transfer and loan policies, and a kick in PEH's bollox too. Ralph is a class act.

Hole

Jeez, that system is more of a nonsense than I appreciated. Thanks for the explanation, much appreciated. I hope that you and the clan get well soon.

Does the constitution allow for that? If so, anything is possible over there.

Well I got that wrong! I bow to your better knowledge of Olaigbe.

Trap

23/28. Just threw in every team I could think of in alphabetical order. Not a successful technique.

Ha! Turns out we had, and it is/was far from amazing.

Nah, they'll go all BBC. It'll be a black ex player or e female ex player, which is fine if its on merit but I suspect that a white male candidate now has zero chance of getting the job on merit.

Cheers, reading the whole quote you can see that his intentions were honourable. Where he fell down was the use of the word choice, which in the context of saying other things which seemingly cause offence, wasn't too clever.

It's a shocker MB. Deserve to get battered with that team.

That's not how I heard it, but regardless, the words gay and choice in the same breath aren't clever.

Would like to see Bertrand back for this. Could see Traore terrorising anyone else we play at LB.

We're a top 4 club now so have a divine right to hold players back from England duty.

You refer to "lazy stereotypes". He was referring to what was said to him, and what he's seen. Why is it wrong to mention as a fact something that one sees and hears as a fact? I have daughters, when they were younger and did footy training. they hated having the ball booted at them. That's a statement of fact, not a stereotype. I'm with you completely on the gay point though. Describing sexuality as any kind of choice shows a complete lack of awareness. I have no idea of the make up of the FA. I agree though that ex players relatively fresh out of the game should be involved. You've not suggested that those players should be black. If you were implying that, we'd disagree - give the job to the best candidates regardless of race. Positive discrimination, for me, is discriminatory and should have no place.