Who Is The Secret Footballer?

Having implemented the new poll whereby you’ve been able to submit your own suggestions when voting for ‘Other’, we now have a list of other possible candidates. 34% of votes were cast for ‘Other’ and below is a list of all of the suggestions you’ve made in order of the number of votes they’ve each had.
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As Tom points out in his comment on yesterday’s post TSF’s racism article does quite strongly imply that he himself is white. The quote is below.
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This week TSF wrote a spot on article talking about racism in football in reaction to the abuse received by Ashley Young, Ashley Cole and Theo Walcott in Bulgaria last Friday evening.

It is true that England has gone a long way to eradicating racism on the terraces in the past few decades, though just a look at some sports forums shows that it is still incredibly rife here and that we still have a long way to go to beating it out of our society.

In other cultures, as TSF points out, it is still at large within football. I hope, as TSF does, that good will come of the World Cup going to Russia and that it will breed a nation of fans who appreciate the players they are watching for who they are and how they play rather than the colour of their skin.

So what of the article this week in terms of clues? Well there are a few points to note:

“Growing up on a multicultural council estate, we were blessed with a healthy dose of colour blindness” – We already knew he grew up on a council estate from the Feb 5th article.

“Ian Holloway accused Stoke fans of racially abusing Jason Euell two seasons ago.” – Euell is currently one of our leading candidates. Could he be referencing himself here? Is it odd that TSF described it as ‘Holloway accusing Stoke fans’ when it was clear to see what happened from Euell’s reaction at the time?

“An African player who is a good friend once played his football in Russia.” – Given the few African players that have played in Russia can we work out who this might be?

Euell love his articles
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