This is a ludicrous thread. The BBC can be accused of many things, but racial discrimination? I'm sorry but they can show countless examples of presenters who are non-white.
But like anything, if you look at certain programmes in isolation then you can draw absurd conclusions.
I wonder how many non-white and female football reporters there are on national newspapers - I suspect the answer is very few.
Amy Lawrence of the Guardian, she's also a guest sometimes on James Richardson's podcast. She's pretty good. There's a sports writer who does the newspaper roundup on SSN, whose name escapes me at the moment.
I'm not surprised there aren't (m)any female football pundits on UK TV, they tend to be ex Premiership players or managers, and it will be a long, long time before we see any women in either role. I'm not sure I'd single out the BBC, no station has the same ratio of black commentators, hosts or pundits as there are black players. Hopefully the situation will improve over time. In the US it's a fair bit better - Magic Johson, Charles Barkley, Pam Oliver, James Brown (not the singer) to name just a few are all well-respected and do a terrific job.
Amy Lawrence of the Guardian, she's also a guest sometimes on James Richardson's podcast. She's pretty good. There's a sports writer who does the newspaper roundup on SSN, whose name escapes me at the moment.
I'm not surprised there aren't (m)any female football pundits on UK TV, they tend to be ex Premiership players or managers, and it will be a long, long time before we see any women in either role. I'm not sure I'd single out the BBC, no station has the same ratio of black commentators, hosts or pundits as there are black players. Hopefully the situation will improve over time. In the US it's a fair bit better - Magic Johson, Charles Barkley, Pam Oliver, James Brown (not the singer) to name just a few are all well-respected and do a terrific job.
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But like anything, if you look at certain programmes in isolation then you can draw absurd conclusions.
Amy Lawrence of the Guardian, she's also a guest sometimes on James Richardson's podcast. She's pretty good. There's a sports writer who does the newspaper roundup on SSN, whose name escapes me at the moment.
I'm not surprised there aren't (m)any female football pundits on UK TV, they tend to be ex Premiership players or managers, and it will be a long, long time before we see any women in either role. I'm not sure I'd single out the BBC, no station has the same ratio of black commentators, hosts or pundits as there are black players. Hopefully the situation will improve over time. In the US it's a fair bit better - Magic Johson, Charles Barkley, Pam Oliver, James Brown (not the singer) to name just a few are all well-respected and do a terrific job.
Darren Lewis of the Daily Mirror.