Red Card to Racism: The Fight for Equality in Football - Couverture souple

Harris, Harry

 
9781913543686: Red Card to Racism: The Fight for Equality in Football

Synopsis

‘It’s not banter. It’s racist.’

Is football doing enough to give racism the boot?

The global Black Lives Matter campaign has given greater exposure to the extent of the structural and systemic racism that exists in all strata of our society. It has provided renewed impetus to the urgent need to challenge and eradicate racism in all its forms and wherever it is found.

Sadly, sport has not been immune from this, especially so in the case of football.

For too long, there were attempts to hide and mitigate racist attitudes and actions within the game, but thanks to the growing profile and visibility of black and minority ethnic (BAME) players both past and present - Viv Anderson, Cyrille Regis, Jimmy Carter, Les Ferdinand, Pat Nevin and Ruud Gullit - to name just a few and almost three decades of education and campaigning led by Kick It Out, attitudes have changed.

However, there's still a great deal left to do.

Throughout his entire journalistic career, leading sportswriter Harry Harris has championed the fight against racism in football. Now, within these pages, he shines a timely spotlight on the Beautiful Game, revealing the forces within football that have both helped expose and challenge racism - and, at times, sadly, hinder more rapid positive change.

Includes exclusive commentary from Greg Dyke, Glenn Hoddle, Ivor Baddiel, Mek Stein, and Jermain Defoe.

‘Highly commendable and will keep the debate raging’ – John Barnes

As featured in The Times, The Sun and Daily Express.

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À propos de l?auteur

Harry Harris is a double winner of the British Sports Journalist of the Year award and was honoured by the prestigious Variety Club of Great Britain with their Silver Heart trophy for Contribution to Sports Journalism . Harry is also twice winner of the Sports Story of the Year award, the only journalist ever to win the accolade twice. He is one of the most influential football columnists for three decades, one of the most acclaimed investigative journalists of his generation on the London Evening News, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star, Sunday Express and BT Sport.

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