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 They say it is outdated, unable to counter the power of the Premier League and held back by "elderly white men".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'?

[jno]

they're running the FA? My, they do get eveywhere.

[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.//

Note....... sp did not mention the English FA. But it is perhaps worth noting that no elderly white men are currently employed in the FA's of the representative group that I highlighted.

[jno]

yes he did; see the next sentence. Moreover, the FA is what the thread is about. If you're going to switch to Fifa, you might as well add the OIF.

[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.//

That was a stand alone statement.... with a clear paragraph change before sp went on to say, get this, that "it's best to leave race aside", after making a comment with a reference to.......................you got it. Race.