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The Black Footballers Partnership has accused English football of refusing to address the under-representation of Black coaches in the game, saying the FA’s Football Leadership Diversity Code has failed.

The FLDC was introduced in 2020, but three years later, the BFP has commissioned its own report which suggests targets have been repeatedly missed for Black former players to progress into football coaching and management.

The BFP study was timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of HMT Windrush arriving in the UK, with workers from the West Indies coming to help rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the Second World War.

And the new report says the efforts to get more black players into senior positions in football have been “too few, too little, too late.”

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