Greg Clarke resigns and is replaced by a Prem Exec

Described being gay as a lifestyle choice, and implied Asians work harder. Oh, and his recollection of the Bury debacle seemed to vary from others (I'm being careful)
 
This from the man that described the idea of institutional racism as 'fluff':

"If you go to the IT department at the FA there's a lot more South Asians than there are Afro Caribbeans. They have different career interests."
 
I don't quite understand why it is offensive to call black players coloured but it is acceptable to call Vice President Elect Harris a woman of colour. I would have thought that if the word wasn't used to convey a malicious message then they could let that one go as an age thing.

I suppose the other stuff he said is the bigger issue, again it is probably an age thing rather than the bloke being a narrow minded bigot.
 
Surely as the leader (guffaw) of a high profile body, he should be aware of what is and isn't acceptable currently. And to say it in the full gaze of a Parliamentary committee ?? To me, long before he resigned, it smacked of arrogance and contempt.

Again, that is before his recollections of involvement with the super 6 bailout, again at odds with many other's recollections of timescale.

Maybe it's an easy out for him before the brown stuff hits the whirly thing
 
gjr69 said:
I don't quite understand why it is offensive to call black players coloured but it is acceptable to call Vice President Elect Harris a woman of colour. I would have thought that if the word wasn't used to convey a malicious message then they could let that one go as an age thing.

I suppose the other stuff he said is the bigger issue, again it is probably an age thing rather than the bloke being a narrow minded bigot.
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Because America has different terminology than we do in our diversity legislation. Two countries divided by a common language
 
Tangerinemoss said:
Surely as the leader (guffaw) of a high profile body, he should be aware of what is and isn't acceptable currently. And to say it in the full gaze of a Parliamentary committee ?? To me, long before he resigned, it smacked of arrogance and contempt.
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I think he's just basically a very ignorant man but he's not alone,indeed its the basis of my fallouts with the Football Supporters Association who have refused to take action against something similar with me.

There's no excuse for racism obviously, nor crass, insensitive comments from people who should know better.That doesn't stop with the FA and includes -or should include- people who sit on the FSAs National Council from the Leeds Trust.
 
Wizaard said:
Because America has different terminology than we do in our diversity legislation. Two countries divided by a common language
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Easy to see why it gets confusing for certain people, must be really difficult if you work over there and over here!

I think intent is the main thing, these people who say why can't i call you a black bastard when i can call somebody a bald or a ginger bastard are the ones who really miss the point or are racist.
 
Just read a fuller account of his answers

He was looking for an out, the juggernaut was going to roll over his less than full account of the Bailout/Powergrab
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
Just Pathetic.
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That's one word for him.

I'll give him credit, it's a creative way of jumping before you're pushed. And looking on the bright side, if the big clubs are trying to strangle the life out of the game at least one of the co-conspirators is now off the scene.

What the game needs now is principled leadership. We got Greg Clark.
 
basilrobbie said:
That's one word for him.

I'll give him credit, it's a creative way of jumping before you're pushed. And looking on the bright side, if the big clubs are trying to strangle the life out of the game at least one of the co-conspirators is now off the scene.

What the game needs now is principled leadership. We got Greg Clark.
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Your a clever lad Bazbob (went to uni I heard) but you know well I wasn’t referring to him but nice try. 😉
Totally agree however it’s no great loss. 👍
 
gjr69 said:
I don't quite understand why it is offensive to call black players coloured but it is acceptable to call Vice President Elect Harris a woman of colour. I would have thought that if the word wasn't used to convey a malicious message then they could let that one go as an age thing.

I suppose the other stuff he said is the bigger issue, again it is probably an age thing rather than the bloke being a narrow minded bigot.
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I d thought exactly that. A person of colour.. Fine. A coloured person. Not fine.
I suppose language is such an area of perpetual fluidity thst, occasionally, someone might be given the benefit of the doubt for not keeping up. Whereas others are just racists in overall outlook and belief. Or is that too black and white?
 
Wizaard said:
Our current Prime Minister used the phrase 'piccaninny children with watermelon smiles'. Inappropriate language regardless of intent?
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Yeah probably inappropriate although I’m not sure how offensive them remarks are on a scale of one to ten.
 
Personally think it’s too much. It’s an age thing. I don’t believe it was said intentionally to offend. What’s acceptable / not acceptable seems to change every year. Appreciate he should be up to date and more aware, but also feel a sincere apology would have sufficed.


Other than that, the man is a total dïck and I’m glad he’s gone. 😆
 
Exposed by the Guardian as up to his neck in Project Big Picture. Providing no leadership to grassroots football. And a fecking dinosaur to boot. Was supposed to talk to the DCMS about how football would get through the crisis. Instead he makes crass comments and enables the greed of the Premier League to go unchallenged.
 
I don't think the man is alone in knowing what is and what is not acceptable terminology in today's politically correct (and quite frankly at times quite pathetic world).

Sure we should root out and have a zero tolerance to anything racist and unfair in any way based on the colour of a persons skin, and any decent human being would agree and support that, but a man's career in a senior position in the national game as well as Vice President of FIFA has just been blown away, not for being racist in any way but for not using the correct terminology in describing a group of people who are not the same colour as the indigenous people of this country.

Get rid of the Greg Clarke by all means if he is not doing what he should be when the man was appointed, but for him to go because of semantics does not seem quite right to me.

In my view he wasn't trying to offend anyone but that's not easy nowadays.
 
He may have apologised, but today you have to be prepared to apologise for the apology once the rabid mob have picked it apart, concluding its insufficiency and proving beyond doubt you care even less than you did pre-apology!

Once the replacement is announced do we know who’s leading on the search to check if they have ever said ‘anything’ in the past? They may well have...
 
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Junior_BentsPlatformShoes said:
Wasn’t that long ago ‘half-caste’ was acceptable, language changes and adapts as society does, unfortunately some people do not.
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That’s exactly right. When I was growing up the word “coloured” was in fact considered to be a
polite term. The word “black” was used in apartheid South Africa and the Southern States of the US and was only one step removed from the N word. Obviously at some point it all changed but it seems not everyone got the memo. Clearly though someone in GC’s position should have been aware.

Incidentally I was recently corrected for using the word transsexual: apparently the expression now is transgender. I’m not going to get a knot in the neck over that. I’m going to adjust and avoid using a word that upsets people. As you say times and language change.
 
I first heard of the the term "coloured" when visiting South Africa in the sixties, under the apartheid regime you were either Black, white South African, coloured or Asian, the term coloured referred to those of mixed race.
 
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