“I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League. If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way – not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent – but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.”

— Alan Hansen

Daily Mail 23 Dec 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2077457/Alan-Hansen-coloured-race-gaffe-BBC-Match-Day-pundit-apologises.html#ixzz1hNvbqGLW

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