Research off screen and on screen

On Screen; Didier Drogba spat after exit from Semi-Final in Champions League.



This represents ethnic minorities in a bad light. It’s representing them as bad role models and helps keep them subordinate in sport today. Afterwards he receives a 6 match ban, the most given to a single footballer.

Off screen; 0% of the board of directors of the FA (who run English football) are from ethnic minority decent. They are all white, born from England and upperclass. This connotes that colonialism still exists to a certain extent, in the fact that the people who own the means of production are white, upper class men (as Marxsists and Colonialists argue).

In the cricket squad, from the 30 cricketers only 20% of cricketers are from ethnic minority decent. And only about 2 ethnic minority cricketers are regulars connoting that the ethnic minority players, while there are a handful of cricketers who are ethnic minorities, only one or two cricketers are actually regulars in the team.