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5 statues of black players...
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08-13-2020, 08:18 AM
...and Laurie is 2 of them.
Dudley's tennis legend Dorothy Round also part of an extraordinarily small number commemorating women. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/53731984 
08-13-2020, 12:44 PM
(08-13-2020, 08:18 AM)baggiebloke Wrote: ...and Laurie is 2 of them. Does Bomber in bronze count?? 
08-13-2020, 01:06 PM
It would be worth calculating the amount of black sports people at the top level during the time period the statues date from and then working out if the % of statues represent over or under in proportional terms vs. white statues.
But who has time?
08-13-2020, 01:34 PM
Thing is, the BBC are making out it's bad etc... However 5 out of 97 seems proportionately right, if possibly high. The article then states most statues don't go up til 20-30years after the player's career ends, so again it's no surprise that there are few right now. I daresay it will increase in due course...
Then again, does this mean we need a Fabien DeFatarse statue to appease some quota or something? Legends deserve statues etc... If there aren't any then don't just erect things just because... I mean, look how long it took to get Bomber up and the 3 degrees...
08-13-2020, 01:50 PM
Tony Brown
Brendon Batson Cyrille Regis Laurie Cunningham Dorothy Round Fabian DeFreitas The odd one out... is not Bomber or Dorothy. And that's nowt to do with statues. |
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