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Cool this is totally going to be applied to Asian, South American and other non-Western nations too, right?

Right?

Wasn't aware of this. Does anyone know what the specific targets are?

Players of color earn opportunity with talent on the field, but the coaches, staff and front office aren't as diversified. Staff hiring is the bigger issue, not signing players.

Colour me brown.

How does this even work? Are they going to look at all professional English clubs up and down the country?

London is probably the most diverse city in the country and if clubs from there aren't filling the diversity quota, how are they expecting clubs from predominantly white areas to fill it?

As an Italian person who grew up in the UK it's always really nice to see that "diversity" only includes literally two other ethnicities. Not only have me and my family faced prejudice throughout the years, but going to a multicultural school there are many other people from non-british white backgrounds who also apparently don't matter (Polish, Irish, Portuguese etc), as well as from other non-white backgrounds from countries as varied as Perù to Lebanon, to the Philippines.

Besides the "is positive discrimination good or not" question, the fact is those clubs voluntarily accepted and signed those diversity targets and failed to honoured them and that in itself is a problem.

I read that they signed it in 2020, and the peaked atmosphere about racism at the time maybe made them a bit overconfident to achieve those goals in the long term.

Anyway, it is strange from an association like English football who looks so diverse on TV to failed those targets they consciously decided to meet when it's about people behind the curtains who make the club's alive outside the pitch.

I get to an extent why you’d be against hiring people just because they’re not white, but people in this thread need to read up about systemic racism and just sociology in general as reasons why this kind of thing happens now

Ah yes combatting discrimination with discrimination.

Utterly pathetic.

Imagine how insulting it is to someone that they've only gotten a job because the organisation needed to meet a quota of people of your race.

Why is there a target for diversity anyway? If you're good enough you will play right?

Remember when this used to be called tokenism. Just changing the word to diversity doesn’t change the meaning.