Racism in football is endemic because its leaders allow it to be

Gavin Allen
7 min readOct 15, 2019
Raheem Sterling has been brave, outspoken and defiant in the face of racism and discrimination — he deserves our respect and gratitude because the people running football are not doing anything like enough

The president of the Bulgaria Football Union has quit — and it will change absolutely nothing in Bulgarian football.

It may appear Borislav Mihailov did the decent thing by resigning but he had been pushed by Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, who called for him to quit and cut government funding to the FA until he left.

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Gavin Allen

Digital Journalism lecturer at Cardiff University. Ex-Associate Editor of Mirror.co.uk and formerly of MailOnline, MSN UK and Wales Online.