Players pledge to ‘use influence to demand end to racism’Move is hoped to be first step to more unified front against abuse
Thierry Henry, Lilian Thuram, Viv Anderson and Anthony Elanga are among a number of prominent footballers to have signed a pledge committing themselves to publicly push for racial equality in football.
An idea initially proposed by the Lilian Thuram Foundation, which exists to support anti-racist education, the statement was agreed during a conference at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground in which players and Harvard academics discussed how to further anti-discriminatory aims.