Racism at Yorkshire CCC

maghater said:
i am quite surprised that other counties haven't been dragged into this quagmire. The number of professional cricketers is relatively small, and they tend to move from county to county, as we'll as playing overseas.
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It'll come for them eventually. Might be ten years, might be forty. But eventually excisional cultures have to be addressed when someone speaks out.
 


chunkyshitehawk53 said:
www.theguardian.com

Yorkshire cricket’s great divide: ‘We’ve got to stop looking over the fence at each other’

Special report As the county club try to repair their reputation in the wake of the Azeem Rafiq scandal, splits in the local leagues are more than skin deep
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Yes,it's an excellent and informative article.There's clearly,and has been for years, a massive cultural difference between the Asian and white communities in the multiethnic areas and Rafiqgate has only exacerbated it with extreme way both sides have handled it.
Let them get on with it.
 
chunkyshitehawk53 said:
Not sure what you mean by the last sentence?
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Not sure what you don't understand -there's no word more than 4 letters long in that sentence. It's a Yorkshire cricket problem. There are both government funded bodies and a cricket governing body who should be assisting in arbitration and help solve the problem.
 
Parkside said:
Not sure what you don't understand -there's no word more than 4 letters long in that sentence. It's a Yorkshire cricket problem. There are both government funded bodies and a cricket governing body who should be assisting in arbitration and help solve the problem.
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The implication was otherwise, let them just carry on. Apologies if I misunderstood
 
I'll read the article at some point but it sounds spot on to me. Its an inherently racist county in all walks of life and will take generations to fix, if ever. Even if the club have the best of intentions and strive to make ot work, they can't change the mindset of a lot of people there
Even my dad who is, economically at least, as leftie and anti tory as me, will trot out certain anti Asian stereotypes
 
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Ghfd said:
Anyone ever questioned graves role in all of this?
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Yes. In my opinion a county that was rife with racism is far worse than one in serious debt but I'll bet that Yorkshire come out of this better than we did.

The fact is that Graves was top man at the ECB and appears to have YCCC tied up financially in all sorts of trusts which I can't work out all the ins and outs of.

Not difficult to work out why FTECB don't care about us and don't want to upset their old mate Graves.
 
Parkside said:
Colin Graves complaining about unfair treatment by ECB!!
Irony or what?
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That sod has got away Scot free so far in all this

Was a bloody disgrace he was the decider on Durham’s punishment

More of that should have been made as he wanted Durham ruined and closed to the benefit of Yorkshire
chunkyshitehawk53 said:
www.skysports.com

Andrew Gale: Ex-Yorkshire captain "will not engage" with ECB disciplinary process over racism claims

The former Yorkshire captain has released a statement outlining he will not take part in the ECB disciplinary process; Gale was captain when Azeem Rafiq played for Yorkshire and alleged suffering racist abuse
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This will happen in the covid inquiry as well
 

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