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Greg Clarke, chair of FA resigns because he referred to black players as coloured.

He may not have been the best leader of the FA we have ever had, but this is political correctness gone mad

Don’t think he’s a racist, nor am I but where will this nonsense end?

I don’t agree. I do think sometimes too much is placed on what is said rather than what is meant, but in the current climate especially his position was completely untenable.

He is the leader of the organisation that started/ gave the game to the world.......not some bloke down the pub......he should be leading the football world in the right manner, right language, appropriate comments.....not dragging it backwards. Using the language he did just shows why the FA campaigns dont work....the leaders just dont understand.

As john barnes has pointed out ,the whole thing is a sideshow and what's happened as a result is that the big questions the football authorities were facing have been completely ignored

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Greg Clarke, chair of FA resigns because he referred to black players as coloured.

He may not have been the best leader of the FA we have ever had, but this is political correctness gone mad

Don’t think he’s a racist, nor am I but where will this nonsense end?

The man is a fool. Surely someone who has risen to be FA Chairman should have realised that you may think what you like but these days you must be more circumspect than ever in how you express those thoughts. That is why he really needed to go, His words showed he did not understand what was required. Simply,  he was not good enough.

my g,kids say they cant say blackboard now, its a chalkboard. I reckon they should bring out the jam jars again with our favourite gollywog collections, i for one would save for my badges, fk em.

When did we have to change from saying "people of colour" which is now frowned upon, and "black" which is now acceptable? Politics aside, surely "people of colour" is more inclusive than just "black."

Isn't it more important to judge people like the FA chairman from his actions rather than his words, which may or may not be currently acceptable?

So is everybody from Europe a white (hope that is the correct term) person, you have the Northern Europeans more naturally white but those from Southern Europe are not as white, I understand to some people how I’ve written this is terrible but hey, we all haven’t had a university education, but the point I’m trying to make is that will whites/ Caucasians soon start insisting in different titles.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

He may not have been the best leader of the FA we have ever had, but this is political correctness gone mad

Don’t think he’s a racist, nor am I but where will this nonsense end?

Being a big naturalist there's a degree of truth to that. Your probably aware the colour of ones skin "coloured" is an evolutionary adaptation to nature that protected humans from the sun and isnt offensive if used in the right context eg discussing how nature forces species to evolve based on environmental conditioning . Some people used that wrongly to subjugate people on the colour of their skin .

Likewise we all originated from Africa and environment has shaped us all physically to some degree or another. Black/Indian people have dark skin to protect themselves from the sun. Similarly  evolutionary theory's suggest Chinese people have slitty eyes to protect them from the harshness of the cold/wind.

He didn’t just use the out of touch term “coloured”, he also made discriminatory comments about South East Asians, Caribbean’s, female footballers and he said being gay was a lifestyle choice.  

He’s the Chairman of the FA not some moron down the pub.