Former Norwich sporting director denounced for ‘callous’ remarks about black footballers

Former Norwich sporting director denounced for ‘callous’ remarks about black footballers

Webber: for some players it is ‘potentially jail or something else’Raheem Sterling among the players Webber listed

Stuart Webber, the former Norwich sporting director, has been accused of “racial profiling” and “lazy stereotyping” after suggesting a group of black footballers he worked with might have ended up in jail had they not forged careers in the game.

In an interview with Norfolk local newspaper the Pink Un, Webber, who has also been the sporting director at Huddersfield and worked as head of recruitment at Liverpool, said: “We want to help the guys who really need it, not the ones who are maybe privileged.

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