Troy Townsend believes the whole of football is underperforming in the fight against racism. Kick It Out’s head of development made his uncompromising assessment in the wake of Raheem Sterling’s call for the English game to give more opportunities to black managers and administrators. “None of us are performing well if there are incidents still happening,” said Townsend. “We are very quick to challenge the incidents out in Bulgaria, incidents in Montenegro when it affects our national players. “We are damning and we want the harshest possible punishment on the associations and perpetrators. “When it comes back into our own countries, we are not dealing with it in the manner we stress it should be dealt with abroad.
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