Joe Jacobson On Radio 5

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About fifteen years ago (may have been more actually) a Jewish publication I’d heard of (Jewish Chronicle?) did a story on Joe. I can’t remember if his father, who posted on here as H, who I used to see at Academy games had told me about their religion or I just assumed they must be Jewish with that surname. Whichever it was, the surprise for me about that story was not that Joe was Jewish, but that there were so few Jews playing in the professional game at that time - in fact, Joe might have been the only one.

Very few Jewish and Muslim players in British football

[J R Hartley]

Very few Jewish and Muslim players in British football

Who cares. Shall clubs start handing out contracts to players who are not good enough just to tick a religious diversity box?

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Who cares. Shall clubs start handing out contracts to players who are not good enough just to tick a religious diversity box?

You are getting a bit daily mail here

It's not about diversity at all really

In our case we have large Asian communities very close to the ground , loads of local kids love football and play the game yet we rarely see kids from the local area playing for us

Maybe we have scouts , maybe we don't

[J R Hartley]

You are getting a bit daily mail here

It's not about diversity at all really

In our case we have large Asian communities very close to the ground , loads of local kids love football and play the game yet we rarely see kids from the local area playing for us

Maybe we have scouts , maybe we don't

or maybe they are just not good enough.