Day 79 Racism

Police recorded crime figures show in 2019/20 that there were 105,090 offences recorded by the police where one or more of the central monitored hate crime strands were deemed to be a motivating factor.UK Parliament I spoke previously about racism in football, but unfortunately racism is an everyday problem. The idea that a person is…

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Day 59 Tackle Racism

The abuse of so many of our black footballers on social channels is probably and possibly the biggest problem we have in the game at the moment.Vinai Venkatesham - Arsenal Chief Executive Football is played all around the world and has been for hundreds of years, some evidence even suggests thousands of years. On the…

Day 56 Sexism…

I spoke previously about hidden biases that we may hold. Today is about one bias in particular, sexism. Even today when we are so diverse, there is still a lot of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination, based on the sex of a person. The way we believe, speak about and our attitudes towards gender is unbelievable.…