Kick It Out chairman Sanjay Bhandari has revealed a top six club has told parents they are not interested in signing Asian kids because of “scandalous lazy racial stereotypes.” Bhandari conducted a “strategic review” and spoke to around 250 people across the game and six sets of parents told a similar story, including one shocking admission from an academy coach at a big club.
It perhaps reveals why Kick It Out - which is trying to improve representation and has supported FA's new diversity code - believes there are so few Asian players in the Premier League despite football being so popular among kids.
Michael Chopra, Zesh Rehman, Neil Taylor and Hamza Choudhury are the only Asian players to have played in nearly 30 years of the Premier
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