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the 2023 ballon d'or list seemed about fair enough to me. I think maybe about 4 of the top 20 had any material amount of recent sub-Saharan African ancestry, all 20 picks overall seemed very plausible to me.

Owen was a monster, though, barely human before injuries got the better of him. Although only 18 he'd finished joint top PL scorer that season. He actually took a penalty on his debut as a 17 year old, with Liverpool 1-0 down, 20 minutes left. I'm sure Master Saka is many things, but a new...

I've no idea what the online abuse said, but the police seem to have reached the (unavoidable, once you've seen it) conclusion that the Rashford graffiti, the grafitti which inspired the kneeling (all white) BLM vigil, wasn't racist. The unfortunate fact is that some foolish people do go over...

The article also mentions a high conversion rate in one or more ANC matches. As I said on page 3 of this thread, and it's only a personal theory, not in any way statistically tested, is that there's a specific problem with 'Black British' takers. There have been loads of (well, some) very good...

Ha, yep, the numbers don't look good. They didn't look good *before* Sunday's debacle (a couple of weeks ago I posted them at the bottom of page three of this thread) and now they look awful. A first thing I'll say is that the samples, as you acknowledge, are tiny. With such scant information...

Haha, well, with 5 posts in 9 years of membership, 4 of them about Euro 2020, I at least could hardly be accused of 'agenda pushing'! I suppose I saw this site as somewhere I could very occasionally speak a few race-related truths that are uncomfortable to the mainstream. Examples might be...

As far as I know, the players who missed *did* receive at least some online abuse which *was* racist. If so, this was wrong. I've no problem with any of England's black and mixed race players. A number of them, particularly Walker, Philips, and Sterling contributed a lot to England's Euros...

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I think Mbappe is a very good player, but I agree significantly overrated, his speed is outstanding, and makes him a very dangerous player, but there's really nothing more to his game than that at the moment, the rush we saw to hype him as a Ronaldo/Messi successor was as embarrassing as it was...

Hi It's not really backed up by proper, robust, analysis, but I suppose my prejudice/experience as an England fan has always been the opposite. England's tournament penalty kick record is scored 28, missed 13, total conversion rate 68%. But breaking that down, the white scoring rate is 25...

Just noticed that his 110m hurdles PB is 13.55. You have to think that dedicated training & specialised training could shave that down to, what, 13 flat or thereabouts, i.e. something genuinely world class.