No, I never drink beer. I've never had a pint of lager in my life.

There are so many intelligent former black players, guys like Luther Blissett and Cyrille Regis, who never got a chance to become a top manager or a top coach because of the perception that surrounds people who look like them. They are black - which, for many, means they are good athletes but incapable of being anything above and beyond that.

The truth is that those at the top of British football do not care about getting rid of racism, they just don't want to hear it or see it.

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