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Liam Rosenior

πŸ‘€ Speaker
619 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

That's because the society that they've grown up in has given them cause to believe that.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

And we need to change that.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

I think UEFA and FIFA are the biggest part because they are our governing bodies and I think diversity is crucial.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

I think they need to open up.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

What diversity brings, it's not having black and white people or anyone from any other ethnic minority in a role for

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

no particular reason other to fulfill a quota, is to make sure that we have people from all different points of view and all different perspectives who empathize and understand with different types of people that we have all over the world in our game.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

So having diversity in authority, having diversity on boardrooms allows us to make more considered and rational decisions and actually move the game forward.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

So it's having it's including everybody in the conversation.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

And your point about individuals is 100 percent right.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

You know, I've had unbelievable conversations with players at Derby this week about the subject of race.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

They're asking me what it's like to be.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

These are the types of conversations that are absolutely fantastic for our society.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

Hopefully we can be more open and not so fearful of saying the wrong thing, because there's no such thing as a stupid question in my eyes.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

No, you make a really good point, Jamie, especially on your point about racial abuse on the pitch.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

I'm an old man now in football in terms of the tide and I was playing for England under 21, you know, maybe 15 years ago now and against Serbia and the same thing happened then.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

So that in terms of that, there's no real change.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

But I think what's actually more crucial and more important than even the overt racism that's in your face is

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

When Raheem Sterling gets racially abused or England players get racially abused when they play away from home, there's a deeper lying root of racism.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

And that's what the foundation of the Black Lives Matter movement is.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
The Football Show – Redknapp, Souness, Gullit, MacAnthony & Wijnaldum

And it's unconscious bias and it's covert racism.