So many black English footballers

who the faff cares tbh

Maybe he was just curious on what other peoples opinions are on the matter? It is a good question and every post about race on thsi forum dosen't have to have an ulterior motive.

I see what you mean, but to be honest 11 people is a ridiculously small number to use for comparison with the general population tbh

I'm sure if you looked at the whole football league (2000+ people) it would still be high

Not that far-fetched, you could easily put the question the other way round and ask why are there so few international standard swimmers of black origin compared to white origin.

This is gonna sound highly stereotypical, but let's face it : most footballers come from the estates, aka from a poor background, and statistically the proportion of black people that live in poor neighbourhoods is higher that in other parts of the country, especially true if we're talking about London.

And what exactly are you getting at?

There are so many variables in life, of course something like this won't be statistically correct. For example, over 1/7 of the world population is Chinese, so why aren't there a lot of Premier League footballers that are Chinese? Dumb question is dumb.


I have a more relevant question, why do so many TSR members post idiotic threads without first thinking for more than 2 seconds about the answer?

Because they're in a different country that doesn't play football as much. Black ENGLISH people are still in the same country as the white ENGLISH people.

Dumb poster is dumb.

The point is that is that statistically you'd expect there to be one or zero black players in the team but there's actually 4, over a third, when black people account for less than one thirtieth of the population. Surely you can see that's interesting/ strange?

No of course I'm not suggesting that, they're the best in their positions... except Johnson

It's funny how when its a black person stabbing someone they never forget to mention he is black but when black people... Coloured people in fact are doing something great they forget to mention it or all of a sudden there British? Or is that just me. Media brainwash people soo much.


I noticed that in the indoor Olympics women's relay 3 out of 4 of them where black, and when the one white women had the Batton we dropped to third place and went back to first when the black lady took over.
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Try actually reading my post before you make a clever, or in this case not so clever, remark.

My example was just one of a stupid question, showing that statistics don't mean jack **** in something trivial such as football.


Not that I take anyone who fills their posts with smilies seriously anyways.

I don't think you would at all. A football team is such a minute number in comparison to the country, 1 more person makes a comparatively huge change to the % of each group.

I'm sure if you analysed it you'd find their hair colours, what hand/foot they use etc. etc. aren't exactly representative either.