Sheffield United have a very similar make up
That’s pretty interesting actually, do you have a link?
Have they signed Asian players?
Nail on the head. Those unwashed lefties wanting to give poor people access to healthcare, employment rights, a safety net that ensures children are fed regular meals are obsessed with identity politics. As a straight white Male I find it so annoying that they want to discuss issues like this and convince people that maybe things have been easier for me. It genuinely feels like we are under attack. Cant we just go back to the good old days of talking about the war?
Summed up perfectly.
This happened only a few months back during a Burnley game.
It's a small English town with a large reactionary white population. Shit football team that plays shite football in a shit hole town.
Shit loads I would have thought. Whether black, white or any other colour they're a Premier League Club and pay fantastic wages compared to other football clubs in the world or the average kind of wage for your average person. Their players won't be living on a Burnley council estate but a nice little (well big actually) rural farmhouse or perhaps even in a plush apartment in Manchester city centre that's only a 45 minute drive away.
Why are they a shit football team
This happened only a few months back during a Burnley game.
It's a small English town with a large reactionary white population. Shit football team that plays shite football in a shit hole town.
I've just given you three examples of three players who played for Dyche. Dwight McNeil played every PL game for Burnley last season. I can give you another dozen players over the last decade and a half beginning with Clark Carlisle who was chairman of the PFA and Andrew Cole (you may not have heard of him as he had a fairly modest career).
Dyche was on a podcast recently (here's a link to it) where he was talking about what he expects in players, his recruitment process, his philosophy. The usual guff - disciplined, right attitude, respect, be humble, keep your head down etc. He seems to want to stamp out too much individual flair. I'd imagine it's a harder sell for players from a foreign footballing culture and Dyche strikes me as the type who would rather stick with characters he knows he can trust. ie. Mostly cheapish British footballers who speak the language and will integrate fast. Burnley may have plenty of money relative to a Ligue 1 team but they play in a league where rival teams spend money like water. They have one of the smallest wage bills in the league and bring players through an academy which is probably made up mostly of domestic/local talent. Do we honestly think Dyche wouldn't sign Zaha or Rashford if he had the money to?
I've just listed three of them in that post you quoted. I'll throw in Junior Stanislas and Darikwa.
Eh? He never used that word. He said he said "I'm not accusing them of anything but it's odd", then goes on to create the thread. If it's such a coincidence, wouldn't he ignore it? Or phrase it differently? He identifies that Burnely have a deficiency of atheleticism (a quality which HE links to black players. I'm not even going near that minefield on a board as insane as redcafe) and atheltic footballers and then proceeded to invite the caf to respond if we feel this is deliberate (his words) on Burnley's part.
I'd suggest you look up the parents of the players, as there's at least 1 who's father is black, before you decide what race they identify as.
Dunno and don't care. I did date a girl from Burnley who suggested her mother was on that anti immigrant shit but I dunno if this extends to the culture of the city. England is still a majority white country (84%) so it doesn't seem crazy to me if 1/20 clubs in the top division has mostly white players.
Actually, the attempts to dismiss any discussion on race is more harmful to progression on the issue. The OP didn’t even make any accusations, just an observation, and people in here started kicking off, talking about Leftist thinking or trying to deflect and bring up a lack of Asian representation. It says a lot about certain posters.
Well said
Yes OP is a disaster. That and assuming he knows the ethic backgrounds of people simply based on not being dark skinned enough to disprove his point. Entire thread is just full of generalisations about the entire population of the town.
Well said both of you. I intentionally made mention of South American players, French and Spanish players but some people saw the word black and immediately lost the vision to see anything beyond that. A hit dog will holler they say.
Out of all the posts against my OP, this one truly stands out. The bit in bold is pure horseshit
People hate white people in 2020.
You could play for Burnley and live in Cheshire or Manchester like all the Liverpool, Utd and City players do. As a PL team they’ll pay very good wages too. I don’t think it’s a case of black people not wanting to play there.
I know you're not a fan of my OP but you've actually provided reasons as to why Burnley's squad is the way it is. That was the sole intention of the OP.
Not that it means anything but just to add, from experience. I went to a boarding school located in rural Zimbabwe and every first term we would have inters-chools district competition with rural schools from the area, they would win all the long distance events and we would ace the sprint ones.
This is exactly what I said: yes, lots of black top sporters (although only in specific disciplines), but top sporters only represent a tiny fraction of humanity and are statistically insignificant as a sample group. What is actually significant, is scientific research into the links between race and genetics, and that has conclusively demonstrated, as those links explain (did you even open them?), that race has no genetic implications beyond the skin. So why so many black top runners? See @Lynty 's post below. (I.e., blame society.)
To fill the 'washed up has been' quota or the 'crap' quota?
Ah so you did a full and proper investigation prior to posting? Then still mananged to get it very wrong.Out of all the posts against my OP, this one truly stands out. The bit in bold is pure horseshit
