Imrul Gazi is the first team manager of Sporting Bengal United, a club who play in the Essex Senior League in Step 5 of the Football Pyramid. Imrul also recently appeared in the Micah Richards: Tackling Racism documentary on Sky Sports. Sporting Bengal was established in 1996 to challenge the under-representation of Asians in football, and to offer Bangladeshi and other young Asians in their area the opportunity to play football.
In this next episode of Taboo on the Terraces, Ryan sits down with Imrul to discuss the attitudes towards Asian footballers in the UK, the under-representation of Asians at the highest levels of English football, and also the racism and abuse that he himself but also Sporting Bengal have faced in the game.
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