I would firstly like to make it clear that discrimination is seriously wrong and should have no place in football, as this is a football post, or wider society.

News is breaking of a footballer being charged with racial abuse of an opponent however they make no comment of the alleged abuser's nationality which seems in stark contrast to the coverage of Mark Sampson about 18 months ago.

You can see BBC article here of today's story: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47160362
An example of Mark Sampson after discrimination allegations: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41326806

While I'll never be able to prove it I did think at the time that Mark Sampson went from a manager of the England women's team, semi-finalists at the World Cup, to Welshman who is manager of England - in the article above his nationality is mentioned in the 5th paragraph. Yet today's coverage shows it is possible to cover a story about alleged discrimination without mentioning abuser's nationality.

Again, it's not the most important part of the story but news today reminded me of my previous feelings. Hopefully the possibility to report on discrimination in football becomes rarer and rarer.