Lionesses Lack Diversity

[fender62]

john cleese pokes the bbc again, he is right..but it's not just the bbc is it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11080261/John-Cleese-worries-lack-diversity-England-womens-football-team.html

[Paigntonian]

Tosh.

[Zacs-Master]

JC speaks a lot of truth. Unfortunately his white middle class standing and his age count against him in these snowflake times.

[ichkeria]

Sounds like he’s trying to start a fight in an empty room.

[DTCwordfan]

tongue in cheek in part I do think....

[Old_Geezer]

It's a good point. Replacing half the team with persons who identify themselves as women would not only make for further success in the future, it would almost ensure BBC coverage too.

[Vicasso]

Too many blondes ? How does he know that the collars and cuffs match ?

[vulcan42]

just another has been who's thought up something controversial just to get himself in the limelight again.

[Bobbisox1]

He needs to look at the England Commonwealth Team ,all the runners are black,very few blondes in the athletics

[Zacs-Master]

The fact that the BBC are screening the Commonwealth Games actually supports his theory.

[Spicerack]

Bit late. The aBBC bemoaned the lack of diversity in the team weeks ago.

[douglas9401]

If there were more black members then 'The Lionesses' would be condemned as racist, shurely.

Anyway, no amount of force-feeding gals playing kick-ball is going to work on the general public now that the fuss has died down.

See also W Series in motorsport.

[jno]

he's not poking the BBC, who can control the people who appear in BBC-made programmes but not who appears in football teams.

But are they all blondes? Some of them look a little tinted to me.

[Zacs-Master]

You can’t say that, jno! It’s ‘person of colour’ or black.

[jno]

they might just be suntanned, ZM, I need to be cautious here. After all, Cleese obviously didn't see them.

[Zacs-Master]

;-)

[Tyrion44]

Surely they just select the best players regardless of colour etc?

[Prudie]

Just because he's old does not make John Cleese a has been whose opinions must be tinged with dementia. Why is that kind of discrimination still OK? For the record his remark is both amusing and astute.

[Canary42]

Why can't these "celebs" realise when they're past their use-by date and just shut up.

[douglas9401]

Right back at ya, Canary. x

[vulcan42]

Prudie, if your answer is directed at me, I didn't mention Dementia. I suggested he, like so many in the public eye, has to say or do something just to be mentioned again by the media.