(Reuters) - Former England international Gary Neville says words are not enough to combat racism in football and that he is 'ashamed' he did not fight harder against it when he was a player.
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- Former England international Gary Neville says words are not enough to combat racism in football and that he is"ashamed" he did not fight harder against it when he was a player. The former Manchester United defender made the comments in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
"Forget campaigns. Forget words. It has to be actions," Neville said ahead of the Premier League's restart on Wednesday following a three-month stoppage due to the COVID-19 pandemic."I'm not going to hide away from it. We need education, we need protocols and processes in place which basically reverse what's been happening in our country.
"It's appalling and I'm ashamed of the fact for someone who ... fought for players' rights at nearly every level, I didn't fight hard enough on this."
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