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Talking about his experiences as one of Britain's few Jewish footballers with reference to recent events in the middle east
He comes over as a really level headed chap and spoke very well
His father used to post on here I believe and he must be very proud of him
Keep politics out of football
Thought he spoke well - amazing to think it'll be nineteen years next month since he made his debut for us.
I don't know him, but a couple of my mates do and said he's a smart and nice guy.
It's good he's speaking out on it too.
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.
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
How many white kids from Canton, Grangetown and Riverside play for us? We are a championship football club playing in a league full of footballers from all over the world, not a local Sunday league team.
You have to be exceptional to make it at this level, being some kid who loves football and plays it in the park local to the stadium doesnt quite cut the mustard I am afraid. You need a bit more than that.
Because the game has moved on to an international level. The days of clubs being represented by a load of local lads has long gone.
Quite what this has to do with there not being many jewish footballers in the football league I dont know. Jews make up 0.2% of the worlds population, how many proffesional footballers do you expect to be in the 4 English divisions?
As for muslims, one of the best footballer in the premier league the last 6/7 years is a muslim. If youve got the talent you will make it regardless of creed or religion.