• Lord Ouseley cites a failure of 'morality' and 'leadership'
• FA, Premier League, Chelsea and Liverpool in the firing line
The chairman of Kick It Out, Lord Herman Ouseley, has launched a damning attack on the Football Association, the Premier League, Chelsea and Liverpool for a failure of "morality" and "leadership" over their handling of the racist abuse incidents by John Terry and Luis Suárez.
Lord Ouseley, who has decided to stand down from the FA Council and his other FA positions, said Chelsea and Liverpool protected their players because of their value as "assets", even when they were alleged, then proven by independent FA commissions, to have racially abused opponents. He describes the last year, when football has been rocked by repeated incidents of racism, as "12 months wasted in hypocrisy" by the authorities.
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