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Press release by Imran Hassan: Initiate Sports©

The first ever Asian Football Awards (AFA) will take place at Wembley Stadium on 24th January 2012 where outstanding UK Asians will be honoured. This inaugaral event is expected to attract a premier list of guests to gather, support and celebrate outstanding Asians in football.

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Tom Adeyemi will be another among a long list of victims as long as the FA's fines are pathetic.

The ugly stain of racism in football has been the focus of media reports since top Premiership players such a England captain and Chelsea player John Terry and Liverpool player Luis Suarez were at the centre of racism allegations in November last year, but if the football governing body continues to hand out lenient sentences for racism it will probably never be eradicated out of football completely.

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Blatter's comments reflects the attitudes of many whites

What a tumultuous few weeks it has been for football, with serious cases of racism levelled at England captain, John Terry and Liverpool player Luis Suarez, followed by the comments of FIFA president Sepp Blatter who said that there was no racism in football and that any racist insult could be settled with a handshake. However, Blatter’s comments is indicative of a wider problem in British society where racism and racist insults has become part of the cultural norm.

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Press Release by Imran Hassan: Initiate Sports©

The Asian Football Awards (AFA) has been launched to recognise the outstanding contribution to both the professional game and grassroots initiatives by individuals and groups across the UK with South Asian heritage. The Awards are to be held at the home of English football, Wembley Stadium on the 24th January 2012 and is being supported by The FA and Kick It Out.

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Andrew Palmer

Article by Carla Palmer©

There are 92 professional football clubs in the UK and around 25% of the players within those teams are black. Despite the fact that the number of black players has continued to rise there are still only two black managers; Chris Powell of Charlton Athletic and Chris Hughton of Birmingham City. To say this is disproportionate is an understatement. This has led to mounting pressure being put on the FA from various angles to change the face of football.

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Liverpool black football player Nathan Eccleston is under investigation by his club for questioning the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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Shame on Carlton Cole for for his colonial mentality.

In the Sun online today, England striker Carlton Cole was caught up in a shameful race row after the 1-1 draw against Ghana, when he wrote on twitter that the Ghana fans were illegal immigrants, revealing not only his colonial mentality but a shameful mentality that many black and ethnic minority populations who are born here have towards new arrivals.

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A group of professional black footballers were left shocked when they were told by a manager of Pizza Hut in Bournemouth to pay up front because of the way they looked.

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Wayne Brown

Leicester City defender Wayne Brown incited a race row between teammates after boasting that he voted for the British National Party (BNP) in the General election.

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Viv Anderson

Viv Anderson, England’s first ever black international football player has called for tougher fines by the FA on racism after saying that the current fine is “nonsense.”

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Bradford City captain, Zesh Rehman

Bradford City captain Zesh Rehman has launched his own football foundation hoping to attract more young Asians into the game.

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Sven laughing all the way to the bank as Ivorians are in poverty

It has been reported that Sven-Goran Eriksson the former England manager and now newly appointed manager for Ivory Coast for the World Cup, will be paid up to £2 million in a country where over half the population earns less than £3 a day.

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Is the king of cool coming to Crystal Palace?

According to gossip on Yahoo music Blogs Diddy has been in talks with the club owners and wants to bring Crystal Palace back into the Premiership.

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Macclesfield Manager Keith Alexander who lobbied for more black managers in the football league.

Macclesfield football manager and one of the pioneers for black managers in football Keith Alexander sadly passed away at the age of 53 after fighting a long term illness.

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In June this year the greatest footballing spectacle in the world will take place in South Africa. For the first time in World Cup history an African country will be host to the World Cup.

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