Football's Coming Home???
The rescheduled Euro Championships, which begin in the next number of days reflect a mood of high expectations at all levels of this green and pleasant land. The tournament, last hosted in England in 1996 reflected a society dealing with terrorist attacks, football hooliganism and violence with knife crime prevalent in our communities.
Many will note that the England team has nine players who have come from the streets and are black. Whilst they might be booed as they take the knee and cheered when they score a goal as was Bukayo Saka when he scored against Austria last week, and again last night when Marcus Rashford scored the penalty against Romania we might want to remember that from the streets to the stadiums and hopefully to the winning raising of a trophy, that our politicians want to kiss and sit next to, we also remember Dea-John Reid who was racially abused and murdered in Birmingham one week ago.
“I sent my son out to play football and he didn’t come home."
Dea-John Reid’s Mother.
Football’s coming home, but it must be for the good of the streets and the players that come from the streets to provide hope and opportunity for all.
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