Racial Snapshot of the Premier League

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Racial Snapshot of the Premier League
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By Karl Baxter

(1/6/09) Number crunching is time-consuming work, so usually I base my opinions of the changing demographics of England's soccer Premier League on my overall impression. This varies from week to week, depending on team selections, which matches I happen to watch, and my own subjective moods.

In order to achieve greater objectivity, I have decided on a more systematic approach, by taking a detailed demographic snapshot of the Premier League. Hopefully, this can be used for future reference and comparisons to establish positive or negative trends.

My method has been to examine the team selections and substitutions of the Premier League teams for their last league games of 2008, played between the 28th and 30th of December.

In these matches, most teams made three substitutions, which meant they fielded 14 players, while some teams made only one or two substitutions. This gives a total number of 273 players who participated in these games, including some who only came on in the final minutes. I have decided to count all these players equally as a representative and easy-to-analyze sample of the Premier League. The 273 players have then been cross-referenced with my own knowledge, readily available reference data, and visuals to allocate their race.

The biggest problem in this respect was sorting out the mulattos from the Blacks. Many of the decisions I made in this case, I admit are debatable and could be revised in the light of additional information. One interesting case is Manchester United's Ryan Giggs. Although he looks White, he has a Black grandfather, so I have classified him as "mixed."

Another problem is White-looking people from countries not normally regarded as White, for example Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, and Algeria. In cases like this, I have based my decision on the looks of the player. For example, the Egyptian striker Amr Zaki appears as White as many Italians, so I have counted him as White, along with Samir Nasri the French Algerian attacking midfielder. Portsmouth's Nadir Belhadj, a French-born Algerian, has not been classified as White because he looks too Arabic. He has been placed in the "mixed/other" group which includes all those who can't be placed in the Black or White groups, including mulattos, more Indian-looking Hispanics, like Arsenal's Mexican Striker Carlos Vela, and Asians, like Manchester United's Korean midfielder Ji-Sung Park.

The results of this survey provide interesting reading. Of the 273 Premier League players counted, 171 (62.6%) were White, 82 (30%) were Black, and 20 (7.3%) were "mixed/other."

Breaking down the White players, we also discover that indigenous White English players make up only 26.4% of the League, with a total of 72 players. The most English teams were Middlesbrough and Everton, which both fielded 50% English teams. The least English team was Arsenal with zero English players, followed by Manchester City, Chelsea, Sunderland, and Liverpool, which each fielded only two Englishmen.

The Whitest team in the Premier League also happens to be the team leading the table at the turn of the year. Twelve of the fourteen players who participated in Liverpool's 5-1 thrashing of Newcastle were White, with only Babel being Black and Ngog mixed. This was 86% of the players used. The next Whitest teams were Middlesbrough (83%), Manchester United (79%), West Brom (79%), and Fulham (78%).

By contrast the Blackest team was Arsenal. Among the 13 players who played in their final match, seven (54%) were black (Sagna, Gallas, Clichy, Eboue, Denilson, Diaby, and Adebayor), one a mulatto (Silvestre), and one a Hispanic (Vela). Close behind were Chelsea, Manchester City and Wigan, which all fielded 50% Black teams.

Comparing the 42 players fielded by top three teams (Liverpool, Chelsea, and Manchester United) with the 40 players who represented the bottom three (Stoke, Blackburn, and West Brom) shows that the top teams were 69% White and 19% Black, while the bottom teams were 72% White and 30% Black.
 

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Karl, nice work!
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Blame it on the morning, but is your point in the last paragraph that the worst teams are playing more blacks than the best teams?
 

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Karl, do you think that there is a bias in favor of black forwards now with"pace"or am I making too much of it?


I like the Coca Cola League below the top fight. They seem to have many more white British players.


I think there are too many foreign white players also. I would like to see a 7 English and 4 foreign rule like Russia and even stricter rules in the lower divisions.I am tired of watching Africans{ white or black), Brazilians, Argentiians. There were even 2 Brazlians on a Jap team I saw.


I was reading Buchanon's book on Churchill and Hitler and Churchill didn't like the small amount of black immigration in the 50"s and he was going to start a campaign as Prime Minister to stop it. One of the slogans was going to be "Keep England White" , but he lost power.I wonder what he would think today about the UK. It's still not as bad as the US in terms on minoritiesbut another 50 years and it will change dramatically if it's not stopped.





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Colonel_Reb said:
Karl, nice work!
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Blame it on the morning, but is your point in the last paragraph that the worst teams are playing more blacks than the best teams?


There are also slighty more Whites in the bottom teams, but, yes, as you surmised, the point is there are quite a lot more Blacks, and this is despite the financial constraints thatbottom ranking teams have in terms of importing such players.


Stoke are an interesting case.In the game surveyed, they had 4 Blacks, all imported, while the rest of the teamhad 6Englishmen, 2 Irishmen and a Dane. This is doubly interesting when you know that Stoke is a particular stronghold of the BNP, where they are said by several to be on the verge of taking over the town council.


Stoke thus appear to be a particularly unsuccessful example of "Contact Theory," the left-wing liberal idea that by exposing us to Blacks we will learn to love them.
 
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Europe said:
Karl, do you think that there is a bias in favor of black forwards now with"pace"or am I making too much of it?


I'd have to say yes, but my feeling is that "pace" is not the real reason, but rather the convenient reason to give, as, whether it's true or not, it has plausibility because of sprint events, etc. I notice that since Whites reestablished dominance of boxing, you don't hear quite as many people referring to Black strength as a factor is selecting them.


Regarding pace, over a 90 minute game of football, any minor advantage in pace would be quite a minor factor and more than cancelled out Black strikers' appaling lack of accuracy. In almost every game in which I've seen Black strikers play there have seem tremendous chances wasted, real sitters put over the bar, etc.


The real factors that favor Black forwards are, I believe, much more complex and hard to state clearly, but they involve elements of self-fulfilling prophecy or the "emperor's new clothes" syndrome. People actually believing the propaganda, make Blacks more effective than they are.


Also, I think that one role that strikers have is simple disruption. When there is disruption, chaos and chances ensue. This would never be openly stated, but the racial unease that arises during multiracial games leads to more creative disruption. One quality of Black strikers is a general unpleasantness combined with a strong body odour that can be unsettling among more civilized populations. The cleverer managers quietly know this, and they also know how to select teams to benefit from it. The psychology and "aroma-ology" of sport seldom makes it into the reports, but if it did the racial aspect would soon emerge.


I also suggest you have a look at Colin Liddell's article "Showing Political Correctness the Red Card"


[url]http://www.castefootball.us/viewarticle.asp?sportID=9&te amID=0&ID=23341[/url]


He details the ways factors such as racial pandering, inclusivism, and White guilt affect things.
 

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nice work, Karl Baxter. factual analysis is always a nice way to combat hype and media fabrication. i look forward to more of your input here at CF.

also, it's nice to see you taking an interest in the beautiful game, Colonel.
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I noticed the announcers criticizing David Bentley because he lacks pace according to them. I hope they don't turn the game into a "speed" game with less skill.They favor Walcott, Agbonlahor and Lennon to name a few. All are black or at least mixed race.


I noitced many of the black foreign forwards ( Drogba,Anelka, Adebayor, Carew} seem to not have great speed. So you are correct, they can't be picked just for speed. There are white British players with excellent speed like Rooney, Bellamy, Owen.( maybe slowed with injury}.


It seems like Capello likes Downing on the left. It will be interesting to see who gets to be the left winger for England, Downing or Young(black}.. If I am not mistaken I think Ashley Young plays on the left wing. Of course, there is still Joe Cole also.
 

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Thanks Jimmy. I don't get to watch much of it, but the racial aspects of the current gamemake it a little more interesting to me.
 
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