Is John Motson not dead, then?
I suppose if we look at it t'other way about it makes more sense. If you were to say something negative about someone, to add their skin colour would make it worse, since it's irrelevant, but suggests their skin colour is an important issue to you. Thus 'You cheating ****' is rude, but preferable to 'You cheating black ****'. The same goes for compliments.
But you do say "great white hope".
I do hate all these identity politics fückwits. All my black mates say black but the semi-literate student brigade jumped on some posh English actor, who was actually trying to help, for saying "coloured" when they wanted "persons of colour" despite the fact that the biggest black rights org in the west is the NAACP where C stands for coloured.
It's all about finding something to take offence over, and it achieves nothing.
If they just took a fraction of the time they spend posting about being offended (and yes I know I'm being hypocritical) and did one hour's work at min wage, the tenner they could send to MSF or, I dunno, how 'bout a charity working with the Delhi street kids, would actually make the world a better place, and would be worthwhile them bragging about online.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."