Siren sounded on racism in football

Two images from 20 years apart - both of an indigenous man, a footballer, pointing in the face of racism - suggest that nothing has changed, that we have gone nowhere, as a club, as a code, as sport, as a society.In fact, what they show is that there has been a fundamental change, though it is far from complete. Perhaps we in the AFL community did become a little too smug, thinking that gestures and ceremonies and totems would be enough, that we had fought the good fight, even the Goodes fight, and won. No longer. Siren sounded on racism in football | theage.com.au