NEW RACE BOSS: TIME TO BANISH DISCRIMINATION

NEW Kick It Out chairman Sanjay Bhandari wants the game to unite to banish discrimination from football.

Bhandari will lead a strategic review into the organisation with all staff and trustees involved alongside the entire football community. He wants critics, as well as fans, to get in touch.

Bhandari said: “I will learn just as much from our most ardent critics as from our most loyal advocates.

“This is a societal problem, not just a football problem, but football has a unique ability to influence social attitudes and can effect positive social change.”

Bhandari was appointed in September to replace the founder of the antidiscrimination organisation, Lord

BHerman Ouseley, who had occupied the position since the charity’s formation in 1993. He stepped down last December. Speaking for the first time since succeeding him, Bhandari (above) said: “What can we deliver? What can we support? What does the football community need from Kick It Out? I will be personally leading a strategic review to establish the answers to those questions. All of the staff and trustees of Kick It Out will be involved in that review.

“But we’ll not find those answers just from looking inside – we need to look outside. I will be reaching out to the entire football community.

‘‘I’d invite key leaders of the FA, Premier League, EFL, the PFA and FSA to participate in such a conversation with urgency.”

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