Arsenal striker was not unfairly treated but let the focus now switch to increasing diversity in English women’s football
Aluko, once an outstanding England international like Wright, and now the sporting director of Angel City in the American National Women’s Soccer League, agreed. “It’s not a Beth problem,” she said. “It is a systemic problem.”
I don’t think either Mead or I handled this small but crucial part of an otherwise positive interview correctly. Towards the end of our allocated slot I mentioned to Mead that, in contrast to the England men’s team, her squad consisted of mainly white women. “Is there an obvious explanation why or is it just coincidental?” I asked. That loaded word “coincidental” was a clumsy way of asking whether there could be any alternative reason to systemic racism.
After the interview was published online last Tuesday, Mead asked Arsenal to contact me to see whether I would be willing to add some “context”. I agreed and carried the full text that Arsenal supplied to me, which they and Mead produced together: “Mead believes more should be done to ensure football is accessible for everyone at grassroots level to ensure diversity at all levels. But she insists she doesn’t think there is concern in regard to racism in elite women’s football.
“I think it was unfair how it was written,” she told Sky. “My values and beliefs are completely different to how it was written. It’s not a true reflection of me as a person. In terms of diversity and everything in the game I want to be there, front and centre, and helping with that. I know the FA are doing a lot for that and I actually said that in the interview. That didn’t get put through on the interview.
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