Lord Ouseley: TV 'complicit' in football discrimination
The chairman of Kick It Out has said television companies are "complicit in discrimination".
Lord Ouseley, former chief executive of the Commission for Racial Equality, told 5 live's Phil Williams BT Sport and Sky should be applying pressure to top flight football to include more opportunities for minorities.
Currently only three out of 92 managers are black or minority ethnic, and only 20 out of 493 coaches in the game. This contrasts with 25 per cent of players coming from BAME backgrounds.
Lord Ouseley said this would be solved instantly if all black players went on strike.
BT Sports and Sky declined to comment.
This clip is originally from the Phil Williams programme on Thursday 29 March, 2017
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