As the Premiership season reaches its half-way stage today, Uriah Rennie takes charge of the match between Sunderland and Manchester United.
Out of over 750 appointments of Premiership referee and their assistants by the Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) this season, Mr Rennie is the first Black face to enter the field of play.
Furthermore, there is not one Black manager in the Premiership and all the levers of power reach up to white caucasian features in charge of football's governing bodies.
Yet, 35% of the players who started the weekend Premiership matches were Black.
In England, institutional racism is evidently not only a prime concern in the police, the military, government, academia and business but also in sport.
Compare and contrast with the number of column inches given to the really critical issue of "too many foreigners in the English game".
We would have thought this small island nation would have evolved beyond such attitudes following the Raj and Rhodesia...
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