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I disagree completely with John Barnes on this. He keeps making this argument - that football cannot educate society - and people within football keep using this kind of line as a reason for inaction. And how odd to tell Sancho that football is not real life. It's his workplace.
If you listen to John Barnes' critique of Sancho:
then read what the Inter ultras said to Lukaku:
- they are essentially both telling black players to "just get over it", because the stadium is not the real world. It's wild.
then read what the Inter ultras said to Lukaku:
- they are essentially both telling black players to "just get over it", because the stadium is not the real world. It's wild.
Imagine if Muhammad Ali, like John Barnes, had said that "sport can't educate society, whatever I do in my career has nothing to do with the real world". Imagine those words leaving Ali's mouth.
Sorry to clog your timelines with this - I just can't understand John Barnes' thinking. He says football can't educate society but his own career is proof that it can. Black people in the UK gained a measure of acceptance in football far earlier than in other parts of UK society.
Right. I need to get out of here. In short: football *can* educate society about racism, and it *should*. No, it *can’t* solve everything, but it *can* do much, much better. Here’s the new @stadio podcast about this subject, with @ryanhunn: shows.pippa.io/stadio/episode… 
