I had hoped to concentrate mainly on Derby's on the pitch performances this week, but once again the subject of racism has hit the headlines in the game and unfortunately Derby County are now in the thick of it!
Former player and BBC Radio Derby summariser Craig Ramage was making his usual end of match comments on Saturday and criticising our young players. He used the term "Young black lads" referring to Max Lowe and Jayden Bogle. Why oh why insert black into the conversation? Max Lowe obviously hearing the comments than went on to Instagram to rightly express his anger at what can only be seen as racist comment!
Yes they are racist comments because they were directed at certain players using their colour of skin. He could have easily made constructive criticism by using names, but chose ethnicity instead
The BBC recently broadcasted a programme that highlighted the problem of racism that still exists in the game. I see and hear it not only at professional games, but also at grass roots level where my youngest son plays.
We have well intentioned campaigns very year against racism at football league grounds, but the problem just won't got away.
Firstly the punishments are very soft! High profile footballers like Stuart Pearce and John Terry have in the past been guilty of making racist comments. Pearce now works for Talksport and Terry has a high profile job coaching at Aston Villa.
We live in a country where our Prime Minister has made many racist comments!
We had a national referendum on our membership of the European Union which brought out some of the most vile racist rants I've ever heard!
How do we address this? We may not be able to eradicate it totally, but surely in 2020 we can reduce it significantly.
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