Last night I came home mid way through a news programme on TV just as the presenter said, " young people trusted him,they were betrayed,  he did evil things to young children. He did awful things to the elderly and now he is no longer with us.." My immediate thought was - has Nick Clegg resigned? Alas, they were talking of course about Jimmy Savile. Clegg remains in post.


Last weekend Rio Ferdinand, Anton Ferdinand, Jason Roberts and several other black footballers refused to wear anti racism campaign kick it out shirts. They were angry at the lack of action by the campaign, particularly the F A's  inconsistent punishments handed out to players found guilyt of racism , such as former England captain John Terry and Liverpool's Louis Suarez..
Some players have said the organisation has not done enough to combat racism in the game; but just how much can this tiny organisation do?
The football League quickly responded that it could not afford to fund the campaign.
The Premier league donates about 0.1% of the money it raises from Tv to the campaign.
Kick it out has an annual budget of about £450,000.
  If the premier league wants to stamp racism out of the game, it needs to take drastic action, now. They should put some proper money behind it and put some rules in place. Force clubs to fine players found guilty of racism and give the proceeds of the fine to the campaign. As i have called for previously, clubs should be sacking employees for discrimination or racist abuse just like any other walk of life.
Professional footballers live a very privileged life, the likes of which most of us can only dream of. They are paid massive amounts of money to play a game they love and enjoy all the trappings of fame and hero worship we can throw at them. Rio Ferdinand is rumoured to earn £125,000 each week.
If he wants to make a real difference, not just to football, but the lives of many many black men and women who suffer racism and discrimination daily, he should put his hand in his bulging wallet and help fund it.
Chelsea football club has an annual wage bill of around £172m, Manchester United pay in region of £150m - the wage bill for the premier league is over a billion pounds each year.
Surely, with those obscene amounts of money been given to the starts of the game, they could easily afford to give vast amounts of cash to support the under fire organisation.
In a previous blog, i called for the likes of Clarke Carlisle and the governors of the game to step up to plate and force proper action from clubs and players.  The PFA the FA, FIFA, and all its its top representatives need to acknowledge that there is still a huge issue with racism in the game, and face it head on. Denials and down playing is not working. Expecting a tiny, poorly funded organisation like kick it out to eradicate the problem by educating at grass roots level and leaning slightly on the FA is suicidal for the game.
This country's National game's reputation is in danger of being worse than it was in the 1980's. Players banned for racism, fans jailed for assaulting players on the field, and Revelations about Hillsborough has dragged the football in this country right back to the gutter. It is down to its millionaire participants to rescue it rather than being the victims of it.