“Formed with 80% British players and 100% white players, Burnley is the surprise team of the season. 40 kilo-meters north of Manchester, everything is from another century.
Burnley’s team photo is such a programme. Guys with short hair, flattened noses, big ears, ready to fight, who seems to announce their style of play on Saturday afternoon and their lifestyle as Saturday night. There is no single black player in the squad of the 7th-ranked in Premier League, coached by a ginger English-man Sean Dyche (46 years old). And it’s as difficult to believe that’s premonition*as it’s coincidence.
In fact, there was a coloured*player in the early season photo, Daniel Agyei, and he was loaned to Walsall. That’s not why he was loaned, of course, but so goes Burnley FC, a team that looks like the city, a northern enclave forty kilometers from Manchester, which voted 70% for Brexit , which had been the breeding ground of strong racial tension, in 2001.”