PSHE Coursework - Dwight York Racial Incident

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PSHE Coursework – Dwight York Racial Incident

Richard Wilson 11S

I have studied the two newspaper articles regarding the Dwight Yorke racial incident that occurred at Ewood Park in Blackburn during the Blackburn Rovers – Birmingham City match up.

        The two articles have two completely different sides to the story even though the articles were from the same Daily National Newspaper.

The First article from The Daily Mail on Tuesday 22nd November 2004, Steve Bruce (Birmingham City Manager) was interviewed about the incident and he stated that he would back up Dwight Yorke as he thought the abuse he was received was unacceptable and shouldn’t be allowed under any circumstances. He also said that Yorke was “Bitterly upset about it.”

        In a separate interview with Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, said that he was disappointed with this incident, just weeks after the England – Spain match up where the same incident occurred. Sepp Blatter did state that he would have backed up Dwight Yorke if he had walked away and ignored the chants and comments coming from a small number of spectators from the crowd.

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However, many people were against Blatter’s comments and said that racial abuse should be tackled and not accepted in today’s football. Many people’s comments which are against Blatter’s opinion follow the Lets Kick Racism out Of Football organisation recently launched to try to combat racism in football.

        From the first article, my opinion of the article is that there are a lot of arguments within the context. These arguments back up Dwight Yorke stating that it was a wise decision to act on the matter rather than leave the racial comments because in my opinion, comments like “Theres only one ...

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