captaincolly wrote:Yes, I think all 18 counties have had complainants and it'd be very strange if Yorkshire was the only one where things get out of hand. Disproportionate action by the ECB would aet a dangerous precedent.
Yorkshire is such a bad case because (a) it was institutionalized at every level of the club (b) their response to provable accusations was shambolic. Of course, if someone else comes out and demonstrates other clubs have this culture, then every club should be treated the same.
The most difficult thing though is deciding what is relevant in the modern day. I mean, county cricket has had a lot of players over the decades come in from other countries... I know from the documentary "Fires of Babylon" that a few West Indies greats give examples of racism they were subjected to in playing in England, and lets be honest, I would fully expect things that nowadays would have been outrageous were probably common place decades ago. But does racism from the 1970s/80/90s maybe even 2000s feel relevant now?
It feels like a lot of behaviour that was commonplace and mainstream accepted in other eras would be considered now, so while I welcome anyone subjected to racism in any era be given a forum to speak about it, you cant use that as an example of how clubs are now, and cant use that as a measure of a culture that exists currently.
Id think up to a certain point in time in culture, very few people if any would pass a modern test whether their actions or words were racist. I grew up where certain words,phrase or what not that you cant even print now in papers without **** were commonplace.