It was news Tuesday that the Vancouver Whitecaps had hired a coach with a history of racist behaviour, but the story is part of a much larger, much older issue.
When it exploded into the public domain this week that the Vancouver Whitecaps had hired a coach who had been sanctioned and fined by the Football Association for racist abuse of his players, it predictably ignited a firestorm.
Adams threw a banana at a black player on his club’s youth team — with “f*** off” written on it — and told him to “f*** off and eat it.” The Professional Footballers’ Association launched their “Enough” campaign, which saw some of the world’s leading players hold a social media boycott. The PFA estimated it reached more than 90 million people with its initiative, and are following up by collecting a trove of social media evidence it plans to present to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Closer to home, both Derek Cornelius and Doneil Henry witnessed the environment that players had to endure in Europe, Henry from his time at West Ham, and Cornelius in Germany and Serbia. “I understand it. I lived it, a lot, against me. I had it a lot against me a lot in the two years I lived , unfortunately,” he said.
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