it is nothing about color… Wrighty.
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An unusual L from Wrighty.
A certain type of racist Englishman who very much does exist. I didn’t feel like he was generalising about all white English people, and I say that as a white Englishman who kinda dislikes Bellingham lol.
I think there’s definitely an element who dislike Bellingham from the perspective Wrighty was putting across, but I think in this case there are a much larger number who dislike him because he seems too cocky, petulant, whatever - and they’d feel the same way if he was a white lad, it’s not specifically because they don’t like “uppity” black people who don’t generally give off the vibe of pure humility like Kante, or even Saka, does.
Given Wrighty grew up in England in the 80s and was a young man in the 90s, and would have had to live in a much more racist society than today’s, it doesn’t surprise me that he feels so strongly about this and sees the dislike for Bellingham through a particular lens. I think unfortunately for Wrighty though, there is a genuinely dislikable quality to Bellingham that I don’t think there was with someone like Sterling, who did seem to cop it very strongly from the tabloids in particular for not much reason, while his white peers didn’t.
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What uncle Ian is talking about exists - Neville’s, Sterling example was perfect. Pogba and even Rashford (yes I know he was the media darling when playing dinner lady but not when clubbing and enjoying his life). Bellingham not so much as he’s a cock.
In case anybody thinks, ‘But, Saka is loved.’ Listen to what Wright actually says.
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Any news on this? Seems like a big story
Not read anything anywhere on it since actually
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