When did football become so PC?

[Turamber]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,1563,1399964,00.html


Why is it offensive that a 30 minute programme to England's best footballers doesn't include any black players? If they were excluded on racist grounds that would, of course, be wrong. But maybe, just perhaps, the people deciding who was best genuinely didn't rate the black players as highly as the white ones included in the programme?

Is it racist if the top ten doesn't include any singles by black or asian artists? Is it racist if my list of favourite five books doesn't include any written by black or asian writers? Is it racist if none of my babe-style desktops include black or asian women?

Utter unadulterated crap.

In any event I would probably agree with the programme makers. There have been some good black players for England - Barnes scored probably the best individual goal by an England player, even if overall he was average for England; Ince, Des Walker, Cyril Regis were all decent players for England but ... the best? Hardly.

Judge the best footballers by their skills, not by the colour of the skin.

 

[Ch3tan]

If you read the whole article, they have excluded players like Rio Ferdinand and Sol Campbell, while leaving in other current England players.

If it had been a look back, and did not include recent and current players I would agree that their have not been many great black players, but it's not, so there is some cause for complaint.

 

[Turamber]

I read the article, it only included David Beckham of the current England set-up. Personally I think he is overhyped and not worthy of being included whatever colour he is - but neither do I think Sol Campbell is as big an England legend as Terry Butcher was, and Rio 'Thick as a Brick' Ferdinand is not a patch on Bobby Moore.

 

[Clown]

John Barnes!
In in reply to your question, maybe around the time Ron Atkinson called Desailly a ******.

 

[Jonaldo]

It is utter madness but that is the way things are going. Sol Campbell and Rio Ferdinand are FAR from England legends and if they now get included it would just be laughable. Best person of ethnic minority to play for England I would say was Paul Parker, great fullback.