Honest question: I’m a longtime premier league fan from the US. In my over 10 years of watching English football, I’ve never seen a person of color as the center referee in a premier league match. Does anyone know why this is? A significant percentage (majority) of premier league players are not white, and given research around subconscious bias, you have to imagine the league and refereeing body would have an interest in having their game officials be representative of the players they officiate? With the quality of officiating being in the news so much recently, increasing diversity in the ranks of game officials could be one idea. I imagine it’s just a big old boys club though…
The old boys club just about accept someone not from Manchester/their social circle being considered as diverse, so southerners let alone black and Asian people have very little chance.
Until this current set are rooted out and thrown into the ocean there won’t be any changes.
Fwiw - uriah Rennie mostly stuck to the letter of the law and got stick for being too pedantic from parts of the footballing world over here.
He probably didn’t carry on any further due to not aligning with whatever bullshit Mike Riley and his match fixing friends were up to.