Race Row Breaks Out After Sky News Panellist Claims England’s World Cup Lioness Squad “Isn’t That Diverse”
A controversy has arisen after Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE, an entrepreneur and one of Britain’s few black commercial farmers, commented on the lack of ‘diversity’ in the England’s World Cup Lioness squad. The Mail has more.
A race row has erupted after an entrepreneur claimed England’s World Cup Lioness squad “isn’t that diverse” and filled with “blonde, blue-eyed” football stars.
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE, who claims to be one of Britain’s only black commercial farmers, said the squad was “not representative” of Britain.
His comments, made during a discussion of the Sunday front pages on Sky News, have received backlash online.
Some people have blasted the entrepreneur as “racist”, criticising him for not accepting that the “best players” were chosen.
“I don’t want to pour boiling water on it but it isn’t that diverse,” the farmer said, describing the front page of the Daily Mirror – which featured a host of England stars on its cover.
“It really sticks out at you. They look blonde and blue-eyed. If it was the men’s World Cup it would be very representative of the Britain that we’re in and very, very diverse.
“What jumps out at you is that this doesn’t represent diverse Britain. It’s all these blonde blue-eyed girls – and I wish them well – but I do think we need to ask ourselves questions about why it is that there is a lack of diversity.”
He continued: “If you could have the men’s team which is very very diverse, why doesn’t that translate to the women’s team?” …
The entrepreneur set up the Black Farmer Scholarship, which aims to help and encourage ethnic minorities to work in the rural community – an under-represented area. He was appointed an MBE in 2020 for his services to British farming.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Rafe Heydel-Mankoo has pointed out on Twitter that only 4.2% of the population of England is black, while three players in the England women’s football team squad of 23 are black, which amounts to 13%.
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Why not do something about it, wisecrack? As person with more money than brains, you could as well spend money encouraging more black girls to get into football despite their equally black families apparently don’t do that. There’s doubtlessly talent to be found there.
Better not. Football is a dead end job for 99.9% of footballers.
The last thing we need is more people trying to play football.
I certainly agree, though I think RW makes a good point. Grievance merchants always want someone else to fund the redress of their “grievance” – they never want to do anything about it themselves.
I was actually trying to make a different point, namely, do we perhaps have a cultural issue here, ie, are black parents as happy with their daughters trying to make a careers in sports as they’re with their sons?
Is he not saying that the men’s team is actually over-diverse given the UK-wide ethnic mix?
He’s just being a prat. Ignore him.
No, he is being a racist @$$#0£€. If a white person said something similar or took issue with what he said they would very quickly find themselves cancelled with rainbow clad knee taking plod knocking down their front door to check their thinking and marking their card with a non crime hate incident, at best.
This country will soon be majority non-white. “Ignoring” people like him, who hate us, won’t be an option.
China, Japan, any African teams? How diverse are they?
Quite. I never hear anyone saying that the Nigerian team is not very diverse.
The Lionesses needed to have a couple of trans women in the team, to give them a bit more aggression, and they would not only probably therefore have won the World Cup but they would also have been more diverse, thus killing two birds with one stone.
And even if they still wouldn’t have won the World Cup with a couple of trans women in the team, they would, more importantly, have been more diverse.
Two men in the team would have been more than enough
Race Row Breaks Out…utter bollocks. Sky News have deliberately gone out to find some malcontent to parrot what they want so they have their headline.
Sky owned by Comcast, run by Brian Roberts, who is a supporter of the US Democratic Party…
That’s why common sense GBNews outperforms Sky every night
BBC and SKY do this all the time. They get other people to say what they prefer not to be saying…….They will often get Joe Bloggs in the street to spout their social justice crap so they cannot be accused of doing it.
I often wonder how many folk get stopped and “interviewed”, until they find someone to spout the most absurd woke bolixs that they actually want to broadcast. Or maybe they are just “resting” Equity members.
I live in hope that one day we will be shown some “interviews” that litter the cutting room floor.
An “interviewer” getting a good, honest clump round the ear’ole would be cheering.
My daughter played junior football at a fairly high level. Unlike boys football there aren’t masses of teams or leagues. The result is that with boys they can play locally, it doesn’t cost so much, in cash or time for parents to support a son playing. With girls you’re regularly driving an hour or 2 to away games, an hour or 2 back. It isn’t a race thing so much as a class thing.
A surprising number of top female players have attended US universities. I suspect the women’s team reflects a different social dynamic than the men’s team. With boys, talent is spotted at 6, 7 or 8 & the clubs fund training etc, with girls it happens much later by when loads of talented girls have already drifted away.
Class trumps race in girls football.
Women will never be a match for men in sports that involve strength, speed, muscle mass and stamina.
In tennis, the Williams sisters, who were coached from infants, and were absolutely at the top of the female game, were both beaten by a man outside the top 200, who allegedly had a beer and a cigarette between the two matches.
Serana Williams was actually asked on TV how she thought she would get on against men and she replied “If I played Andy Murray I would lose 6-0 6-0. —There is nothing to be ashamed of. Men are more powerful than women. The social engineers just cannot accept that though.
Perhaps he could comment on advertising. Not many straight,English role models to see there.
That´s terrible! “They all look blonde and blue-eyed” – how wayciss can you get?
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is guilty of one of those newfangled Hate Crime thingies.
Send him down!
In the old days, people watching the TV would have said ‘Silly old fu**er!’ carried on to the next item and forgotten about it. Trouble is, in the internet age, grievance grifters and click-baiters seem to spend all day watching for stuff such as this to get clicks.
In much of the UK, you can walk around all day long and never see anyone of a different ethnicity from white. There are certain parts of the country where people who aren’t white moved – mostly major cities in order to find work – when they or their parents or grandparents arrived. Otherwise there’s a reasonable mix of ethnicities in certain port cities, but for the most part, percentage-wise, the UK is still overwhelmingly white, especially given the huge influx of white people from the EU from the early 2000s.
Thank F-ck the Lioneses lost ! 1966 would have ceased to exsist , ironically The 66 England Mascot was called World Cup Willie 😂😂😂😂😂😂
People like this simply have to be ignored. They’re beneath contempt. Desperately unintelligent, and of course they’re racists.
This person is a race card playing imbecile. ——-Is he really suggesting that a football team should have a certain quota of black people in it for silly social justice reasons? In the men’s football you will see hundreds of black players. not because they are black but because they are good enough to be in the team. I can tell this imbecile now that if enough black women played football and they were good enough they would be in the team, unless he has evidence to the contrary that black players that are good enough are being kept out of the team.
Right. That’s the last time I ever buy any of his damn sausages.
Racist.