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How long.....

VernonsBoots

VernonsBoots

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...before PNE have an Asian player on their books? I've seen a number of young Asian lads over the years playing for junior teams who have been very skilful bu why is it that they do not progress into the professional game?
We have a large Asian population in Preston that may take a greater interest in the club if we had Asians in the squad, boosting the attendances.
I for one would back a PNE strategy to promote football within the Asian community.
 
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Lots of Asians already attend games at Deepdale, it's great to see and it shows what a good job the Racism out of Football campaign is doing. About 13 years ago a mate who I used to go on with, stopped, because he was sick & tired of the racist shit that was spouted by dickheads all around him. The really sad thing was that them chants were met with laughter back then🙁.
 
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what about the great ricky heppolette 1964-1972? for our 15000 local muslim population frankly ramadan now taking place must cause a major problem as regards fitness. for our 10000 hindhus + any sikhs etc there is not the same problem. obviously there are many asian christians as i believe the great ricky is.
 
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We want the best players we can get, no matter what colour they are. I hate this positive discrimination crap. If the asian community want to come great, if not who cares. We should be looking at attracting people (in general) not just a certain ethnic group.
 
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Yes, but deepdale is smack bang in the middle of where the majority of this ethnic group live. You go to other grounds in built up areas and just about everyone who lives within a stones throw supports that club. Not the case with us.
 
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marsbars said:
We want the best players we can get, no matter what colour they are. I hate this positive discrimination crap. If the asian community want to come great, if not who cares. We should be looking at attracting people (in general) not just a certain ethnic group.
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Nothing to do with discrimination of any kind, more inclusive!
 
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I'm actively involved with the Under 11 City Team and on many occasions we have identified Asian players who could offer something to the team. However, they often can't attend games because they go to mosque.

In fact, Deepdale Jnr School (5 asian players) won the Preston Schools' 7-a-side and North End approached them about several players. As far as I know, none of them have been down for trials due to the above reason.
 
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They did a programme about this a few years ago asking why no Asians as made it as a pro footballer. They came up with the conclusion that it's to do with the way their built. Most Asians are light boned making them good at Badminton, Squash. Cricket ect by being able to move around the court pitch quickly. But football is a contact sport and it seems that they can't handle the pyhiscal side of the game,

To be a good football you need the 3 S's; Skill, Strength, Stamina, you have those three then you can go a long way in football (thats why iam still playing at 50 LOL). But it seems Asians are lacking in one of these vital components. The programme came up with that lack of phyiscal attributes as the reason why Asians done make it as proffesional footballers. They have the skill but you need more than that.

The programme was screen about 5 years ago and to this day not one Asian as made it as pro footballer to my knowledge kind of proving their point.

Please correct me if iam wrong
 
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surf said:
They did a programme about this a few years ago asking why no Asians as made it as a pro footballer. They came up with the conclusion that it's to do with the way their built. Most Asians are light boned making them good at Badminton, Squash. Cricket ect by being able to move around the court pitch quickly. But football is a contact sport and it seems that they can't handle the pyhiscal side of the game,

To be a good football you need the 3 S's; Skill, Strength, Stamina, you have those three then you can go a long way in football (thats why iam still playing at 50 LOL). But it seems Asians are lacking in one of these vital components. The programme came up with that lack of phyiscal attributes as the reason why Asians done make it as proffesional footballers. They have the skill but you need more than that.

The programme was screen about 5 years ago and to this day not one Asian as made it as pro footballer to my knowledge kind of proving their point.

Please correct me if iam wrong
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Good post Surf, on the same sort of point, somebody told me that Black people are good sprinters because of the size of the tendons in their legs??

Any truth in this?

Also the same reason why they are shite at swimming.
 
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surf said:
They did a programme about this a few years ago asking why no Asians as made it as a pro footballer. They came up with the conclusion that it's to do with the way their built. Most Asians are light boned making them good at Badminton, Squash. Cricket ect by being able to move around the court pitch quickly. But football is a contact sport and it seems that they can't handle the pyhiscal side of the game,

To be a good football you need the 3 S's; Skill, Strength, Stamina, you have those three then you can go a long way in football (thats why iam still playing at 50 LOL). But it seems Asians are lacking in one of these vital components. The programme came up with that lack of phyiscal attributes as the reason why Asians done make it as proffesional footballers. They have the skill but you need more than that.

The programme was screen about 5 years ago and to this day not one Asian as made it as pro footballer to my knowledge kind of proving their point.

Please correct me if iam wrong
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Sounds plausible but I have seen some big uns knocking about round town.
 
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Just 'googled' it and came up with this...

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Genetics, in the form of having a higher proportion of "fast-twitch" fibres and more testosterone than whites, may predispose a black individual to run fast.[/FONT]
 
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Ol' Red Eyes said:
Good post Surf, on the same sort of point, somebody told me that Black people are good sprinters because of the size of the tendons in their legs??

Any truth in this?

Also the same reason why they are shite at swimming.
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The little fella out of 'Diff'rent Strokes' wasn't a sprinter.
 
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VernonsBoots said:
The little fella out of 'Diff'rent Strokes' wasn't a sprinter.
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"Now the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum!":mawene:
 
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am afraid fellas this smacks of graham taylors logic after the 1992 european championships when he said we will never be able to compete with those big scandanavians!
 
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surf said:
They did a programme about this a few years ago asking why no Asians as made it as a pro footballer. They came up with the conclusion that it's to do with the way their built. Most Asians are light boned making them good at Badminton, Squash. Cricket ect by being able to move around the court pitch quickly. But football is a contact sport and it seems that they can't handle the pyhiscal side of the game,

To be a good football you need the 3 S's; Skill, Strength, Stamina, you have those three then you can go a long way in football (thats why iam still playing at 50 LOL). But it seems Asians are lacking in one of these vital components. The programme came up with that lack of phyiscal attributes as the reason why Asians done make it as proffesional footballers. They have the skill but you need more than that.

The programme was screen about 5 years ago and to this day not one Asian as made it as pro footballer to my knowledge kind of proving their point.

Please correct me if iam wrong
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Shouldn't the term 'Asian' be refined to 'Indian' or 'Pakistani'? After all, there's plenty of very good South Korean, Iranian, Japanese, Israeli, etc. footballers around. You can't say these nations have many players possessing strong physical attributes, but they still boast good national teams and export plenty of players to Europe.
 
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Oofaafuu said:
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" Whatya talkin 'bout Willis"
 
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Ol' Red Eyes said:
Good post Surf, on the same sort of point, somebody told me that Black people are good sprinters because of the size of the tendons in their legs??

Any truth in this?
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I heard it helps that their arses are slightly higher up their body. Sorry can't be arsed to phrase this in a PC way.
 
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dannypne7 said:
Shouldn't the term 'Asian' be refined to 'Indian' or 'Pakistani'? After all, there's plenty of very good South Korean, Iranian, Japanese, Israeli, etc. footballers around. You can't say these nations have many players possessing strong physical attributes, but they still boast good national teams and export plenty of players to Europe.
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I dunno Dan, have you seen the size of them Sumo fellas?
 
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