The Football Association (FA) have managed to make yet another balls up. This time the open goal was a DVD, "The Pride of The Nation", of the greatest English (Is that racist!?!) footballers of all time. The 30 minute DVDs were to be given to new England fans when it was discovered that none of the greatest were black. At this point I should declare that I have no interest in football, would struggle to name twenty great players and would have even more of a problem discussing their relative merits!!
However, it does strike me that if, in their humble opinion, the greatest twenty players happen to be white, then so be it. The FA should have been able to foresee this problem and nipped it in the bud by being racist intitially (!!) and having a quota of "non-white" players. By withdrawing the DVD, they have presumably accepted that their choice was racist and will try harder. They are left with one final dilemma, do they now remove some of these players and replace them with (in their judgement) not such good players that are "non-white" or do they make it an hour long DVD featuring more players, the majority of whom will just happen to be non-white?
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