SWEET FA

                                                                     

                                                                      SWEET FA

I read with a groan that the Football Association has been accused of letting down black and ethnic minority people after setting up an all-white, all-male commission to improve the English football team. Well, not too long ago the English football team was all-white, so where's the lack of so-called improvement there?   They are never satisfied.

Apparently, there's a lady who goes by the name of Heather Rabbatts who is the only female board member on the FA.   She has now come out, as they say, and said she had no choice but to go public with her concerns as there had been a "refusal to understand" her position in private.   I suspect what she is saying is that nobody could be bothered to take her whinging any further.   She said, "The opportunity to lead an informed debate on the future of English players has been singularly damaged".

I don't know anything about the lady but I suspect that her whole focus on the job in hand is to promote ethnic minorities in the way that holds back real discussions on the wider picture, when there should be a far more rounded approach to football, ie why is there so much money going to agents?   Why are we allowing so many foreign businesses and rich individuals to buy iconic clubs in this country?   Why are we allowing people to reside here for five years and then play for this country?  (see previous post)   I would have thought these were far more important topics to discuss with regard to the improvement of English football, but then those with "agendas" are generally prone to very narrow thought patterns.

Those who know me are aware that I suffer from diabetes and have monthly injections into my eye to take away excess fluid.   It was interesting that whilst lying on the table awaiting my injection last month the doctor, as ever, dropped anaesthetic into my eye, followed by iodine (the idea being that if you can't feel the sting of the iodine then the anaesthetic has worked).   The iodine ran from my eye towards my ear and I brushed it away with a finger only to be told by the doctor, "Don't do that,  you'll get a smear and you'll go home looking like a golliwog".   Interestingly that as the doctor laughed at her own little funny, I thought to myself, "She's not being politically correct and she's Asian!"   It generally turns out to be the white do-gooders that can't stop harping on about inequality and all things racial.

As Chas & Dave would say, "Rabbatts, Rabbatts, Rabbatts .........."