Mark Sampson, former England Women coach, apologises to Aluko and Spence

• ‘I’ve worked hard to educate myself’
• Sampson was sacked by FA in September 2017

The former England women’s coach Mark Sampson has apologised unreservedly to Eni Aluko and Drew Spence for remarks he made to the players while in charge of the national team.

An inquiry, after the allegations had been published by the Guardian, by the independent barrister Katharine Newton found in October 2017 that Sampson had “on two separate occasions made ill-judged attempts at humour, which, as a matter of law, were discriminatory on the grounds of race” but added that “it was fundamentally important to emphasise that I have not concluded that MS is a racist”.

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from Football | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2TbUURT