20: Arsenal. Did you know?

Arsenal are currently by far and away the best team in English football. But did you know they do not have any white English first team players and only one in their entire squad?

It took a while but at last black English sportsmen and women are getting the opportunities that skill deserves but which they were deprived of by racism all the way up to the 70's and 80's (when I was growing up). How many more brilliant players could football have seen and the English national team benefited from if racism hadn't (and didn't) exist?

Do you think the same thing is happening these days to English players of Asian descent?

Anyone remember Clyde Best? a hero of mine at West Ham.