Despite England's historic 8-0 victory over Norway at the recent women's European football championship, the BBC employee was still dissatisfied. Of course, not with the result, but rather with the fact that there was not a single black player in the starting eleven and the five-member substitute line-up.

Presenter Eilidh Barbour did not waste many words on the success, on the fact that the English girls secured their place in the quarter-finals. However, in an almost painful tone, he brushed off the fact that the team is made up of all white footballers, and this highlights the fact that in England - what a pain - there is no diversity in women's football. Who would have thought that in the island country inhabited by 85 percent white people, there are many more pale-faced girls playing soccer?

It would have been the duty of the national team captain to assemble the team based on skin color instead of education, technical and tactical skills. According to the BBC, the English teams should perhaps even introduce an ethnic quota?

But then what about the British athletics team, in which you can almost only find white-skinned players. And what a coincidence, nobody on this front is bothered by monotony. Neither is the fact that there are no whites in the Nigerian or Senegalese national football teams.

In any case, the expression of the BBC employee also indicates that the public service channel is trying to accuse England of institutionalized racism in the spirit of awakening culture. No wonder only 51 per cent of British adults believe the broadcaster is effective in providing impartial news and current affairs. According to opinion polls, at least three million Britons have already lost faith in the public service broadcaster.

It's just icing on the cake that the BBC doesn't do much sweeping in front of its own portal. According to the list also published by Mail Online, the members of the channel's "starting eleven", i.e. the highest paid presenters, are all white.

True, at least fifty shades of white bloom on their thick skin.

Károly Jánosy's article was published on 888.hu

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