Honest question: I’m a longtime premier league fan from the US. In my over 10 years of watching English football, I’ve never seen a person of color as the center referee in a premier league match. Does anyone know why this is? A significant percentage (majority) of premier league players are not white, and given research around subconscious bias, you have to imagine the league and refereeing body would have an interest in having their game officials be representative of the players they officiate? With the quality of officiating being in the news so much recently, increasing diversity in the ranks of game officials could be one idea. I imagine it’s just a big old boys club though…
Why try and compare players to referees. The players are way more international… also the majority of English people are white, so you’d expect the majority of refs to be as well. It probably could be increased slightly, but it’s not an issue. Very American to always bring race into everything
Indeed, classic American bad take!