It is sad that Mark Sampson, who hails from the happily racially diverse city of Cardiff, should have turned the clock back with the otherwise improving England women's football team. One sensed that something was up after the change from Hope Powell. Women of colour were disproportionately retired early and Sampson's teams were distinctly paler than his predecessor's. Now comes confirmation from Eniola Aluko of Sampson's prejudice, or ignorance, or both.
I suppose it betrays my own prejudice in saying that one should not mess with a Nigerian-born practising sports lawyer.
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