Beyond The Hashtag

This week Stephen is joined by ex-Juventus, Saint-Etienne, Portsmouth & Stoke (to name a few clubs) striker Vincent Pericard; to talk all things racism within the professional football industry. Vincent's unique experiences playing in across Europe brought some hard hitting stories.

00:00 - Vincent's Heritage and Youth

07:37 - Italian football racism experiences

17:03 - Life in England

22:19 - Current Social Media Abuse Solutions

27:55 - Retirement from Football & Mental Health

*Apologies for any audio hiccups in this one!*

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-pericard-05584936

"WhatsUp?" (Vincent's app providing daily tools for positive mental health) - https://www.thewhatsupapp.co.uk/

We continue our chat with Kick It Out's Head of Development, Troy Townsend, to unpick some of the current discrimination issues being witnessed across all levels of British football. In this part, we touched on a range of modern problems the game has been failing to deal with sufficiently, year upon year. 

In part 1, Troy re-lived some of his personal experiences in the game, both dark and joyful - be sure to go back & listen if you haven't yet!

(00:00) - How it started Vs How it's going

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Colour of Power Index (mentioned by Troy) - https://www.green-park.co.uk/insights/the-colour-of-power/s191468/

Our Host, Stephen, sits down with Kick It Out's Head of Development, Troy Townsend, to unpick some of the roots of the current discrimination issues being witnessed in the British game at all levels.  In part 1, Troy re-lives some of his personal experiences in the game, both dark and joyful. Be sure to subscribe on your favourite podcast platform so you don't miss Part 2! 

01:56 - Troy's background

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Troy's Podcast (Twitter/Insta): @TheConv3rsation

Andddd we're back! Continuing the current news discussions in our 2 part Christmas special. Let's dive into the PSG vs Istanbul Başakşehir game (00:56), where the words of an official caused 2 teams to walk off the pitch and suspend a high profile Champions League Game.

Then we fly back to England (18:28) and land on the roundabout topic that "Taking the Knee" has become; especially now that fans have returned to stadiums (cc: Millwall FC and the boo boys) . And finally rounding off with the solutions (33:48) for both episodes 8 & 9. 

From everyone at BTH Pod, we wish all our listeners a very Merry Christmas! Thank you for your support and keep going #BeyondTheHashtag in your everyday lives.

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We normally spend the first section of each episode discussing some notable events in the world of discrimination in football. But the last couple of weeks has seen such a whirlwind of issues, we had to dedicate the entirety of the next TWO episodes to it!

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Why is "Pace n Power" or "Beast" so wrong to use as a description of black footballers? How can co-commentators & pundits be educated to speak in an unbiased manner? (do they even know they're doing it?!)

(02:52) Current Discrimination News Stories - including Nicolas Pepe, Marcus Rashford (again) & Mason Greenwood.

(21:44) Review of  "Racial bias in football commentary" study complete for 2019-20 season.  https://runrepeat.com/racial-bias-study-soccer

(51:23) BTH Proposed Solutions to racial bias & stereotypes in football & wider society.

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