Episode 1785: Liverpool Hedge On Timo, England’s No Win Race, Colston Gone… Churchill Next?
England is coming out of lockdown but Liverpool and Klopp are not feeling so bullish about football’s future profitability, and have turned down the chance to sign German sensation Timo Werner. If Chelsea sign him will it be seen as the last ever big money transfer, or a bargain?
Chelsea have now agreed a deal in principle to sign Timo Werner from RB Leipzig.
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) June 4, 2020
Slave trader Edward Colsto, and as he’s been described in some sections of UK society, “philanthropist”, is under water. Is Winston Churchill getting nervous?
We cheered when Saddam Hussein’s statue was toppled in Iraq after only decades as a dictator, so why object to the toppling of #EdwardColston‘s 1895 statue in Bristol, a brazenly triumphant totem of 300 years of the British slave trade? Long overdue! https://t.co/5YKNz86qVu pic.twitter.com/xjlviHzouX
— Bernardine Evaristo (@BernardineEvari) June 8, 2020
We also speak to Derek Bardowell about his William Hill-nominated book, No Win Race.
For all you folks who don’t do hardbacks #NoWinRace is OUT NOW in paperback! A personal, timely exploration of racism in Britain through the lens of sport. @BookiePrize longlisted, an @FT & @thesundaytimes book of the year ???????? @AMHeathLtd @mudlarkbooks @HarperCollins pic.twitter.com/rwxGFNzZKr
— Derek A Bardowell (@DerekABard) April 16, 2020
The book is about growing up as the British-born son of Jamaican immigrants, his evolving sense of his own identity and his shifting relationship to sport between about 1980, when the Minter-Hagler fight exposed him for the first time to the meaning of racism, to the present day.
Via the West Indies, Michael Jordan, Lloyd Honeyghan and Ian Wright, Bardowell reflects on how sport has shaped the experience and influenced the perception of black Britain and black America.
Michael Jordan says he will donate $100m (£78m) to groups fighting for racial equality and social justice. https://t.co/4VJdJialWg pic.twitter.com/M65eIRklDN
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) June 6, 2020
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Ken has been reviewing the new Lance Armstrong documentary…. pic.twitter.com/wTCstox2z2
— Second Captains (@SecondCaptains) June 5, 2020
Ken is whipped into a frenzy yet again by the no-good mainstream media pushing the lie that Normal People’s Connell is a GAA man
When will people open their eyes? https://t.co/rhM0z1M8g6 pic.twitter.com/HBMfnYPiF3
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