Enough quality isn't coming through. Football clubs look at talent not colour of skin. In fact many new programmes have started to get Asians into football in the UK and it is said there is a lot of talent but isn't being harnessed.
A British Pakistani captained a England youth side to glory.
Let me tell you a true story.
Over 30 years ago, i used to play cricket with my mirpuris chums, but thats a different story and i used to play football with my indian chums, mostly sikhs and chamars. We once played outdoor 5 a side against a rich mirpuri guy and his team and battered them 10 - 0.
The guy got peed off and challenged us the following week, we accepted. The next time we came, the rich mirpuri kid had 4 guys from the youth team of a famous premier league team in his side!
We ran circles around them and beat them, i think it was 5 -2 iirc.
Those guys were in shock that a bunch of asians were so good at football. There told us to turn up to trials for the youth team of this premier league club. I was like the second/third best player in the team, the best player was this sikh guy and he was an amazing footballer, 6ft tall, he had amazing control of the ball, didnt run , but stroll pass opponents and would do a little flick with the ball, over the foot of an opponent who was trying to tackle him.
Anyway, i didnt go to the try outs because my parents wanted me to go to uni.
But my mate went and believe me, he had nothing good to say about it. Basically they took one look at him and rejected him. This was 30 odd years ago, but i dont see much change in football in the uk, forget about the premier league, not even in the championship or in the lower leagues or even in the semi professional leagues, do you see many british asians.
Now i dont expect to see many, if any pakistanis/mirpuris because most can't pass a ball to a team mate 10 metres away, but there are some amazing sikh footballers, but no one is interested in giving them a chance, not even in semi professional leagues.
