How Dare They, This Kind Of Talk Ticks All Three Boxes, Ageist, Sexist, And Racist?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/294176/what-does-the-fa-do-the-football-associations-aims-powers-and-directors-heres-what-we-know/

Back in 2001 Ex BBC director-general Greg Dyke described the corporation as being "hideously white".

Now he is amongst those who are saying "The Football Association is stuck in the past and being held back deliberately by "elderly white men".

/// Five former FA executives - Greg Dyke, David Bernstein, David Triesman, David Davies and Alex Horne - have called on Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee to propose legislation to reform the FA. They say it is outdated, unable to counter the power of the Premier League and held back by "elderly white men". ///

It may be the case, but would they have been allowed to say it, if they had been 'elderly black men'?

[jackthehat]

Far too many businesses suffer from the 'male, pale and stale' syndrome.

Let's hope that a shake-up in the F.A. delivers the results that we, the nation, have been denied for far too long...

[RandyMarsh]

It is not elderly black men that are holding the FA back AOG.

[jno]

is there a single business in the entire country run by elderly black men? If not, the question will remain purely hypothetical for many centuries to come.

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// It is not elderly black men that are holding the FA back AOG. ///

I am sure there is something we could criticise elderly black men for, but it would not be allowed to be reported for fear of being classed as racist.

[Mamyalynne]

Really?

[ummmm]

It doesn't seem to bother you, AOG!

[mikey4444]

I am not sure what they are supposed to do AOG.

But I know what they haven't done, and that is to take the security and protection of hundreds and possibly thousands of vulnerable your boys and men seriously.

Instead, that have covered up and protected scouts and coaches that were successful in bringing them good football talent, whilst ignoring the harm that some of those same scouts and coaches were doing to young lives.

And it was all done in the pursuit of money.

[mikey4444]

Met Police football abuse inquiry covers 30 clubs ::::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38308502

[Bazile]

//I am sure there is something we could criticise elderly black men for, but it would not be allowed to be reported for fear of being classed as racist.//

Go on aog , i'm intrigued

[RandyMarsh]

The west indies cricket board kops some stick Aog, will that do?

[mikey4444]

AOG.....if the FA was mostly made up of "elderly black men", unlikely as it would seem, I can't see why you or anybody else couldn't mention it.

In fact, it would be so outstandingly novel, that we would all be taking about it.

[Togo]

They should immediately all be replaced with members of the Football Associations of Zambia, Congo, Angola or Zimbabwe. All better suited to a fair and corruption free regime than we could possibly provide.

[Zeuhl]

togo

i think you'll find that Africans were never mentioned.

[Togo]

I was just looking for examples of "elderly black men" Zeuhl. If those potential possible fine upright candidates are not suitable how about Germany,(Beckenbauer) France, (Platini) Russia(Putin) Qatar( all of em) as an alternative. I am sure the FA has a lot to learn in the corruption business, we may as have qualified people after all.

[-Talbot-]

jackthehat
Far too many businesses suffer from the 'male, pale and stale' syndrome.

like ...







Donald Tusk
Jean-Claude Juncker
Martin Schulz
Frans Timmermans
Mario Draghi






?

[Old_Geezer]

I thought societies appreciated the older wiser members being in charge of things and avoiding impetuous young whippersnappers making naive decisions.

[youngmafbog]

Societies may do but increasingly mega corporations are classing over 50's as dinosaurs and since we are heading for corporations ruling the world thanks to Globalization that is the way forward, regardless it seems of local laws.

[sp1814]

"It may be the case, but would they have been allowed to say it, if they had been 'elderly black men'?"

Who knows?

We aren't at a point where there are any elderly black men in the upper echelons on football administration to make a comparison.

One would not like to make any allusions to the current issues facing the FA right now, so I think it's best to leave race aside.

Right?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// One would not like to make any allusions to the current issues facing the FA right now, so I think it's best to leave race aside. ///

Then try telling that to those who are criticising those elderly 'WHITE' men.

Right?

[Togo]

//We aren't at a point where there are any elderly black men in the upper echelons on football administration to make a comparison.//

Oh I don't know there was Jack Warner, Kirsten Nematandani, Jonathan Musavengana, Bana Tchanile. and Lindile Kika for a start.