For unlike Sterling, and the countless other players subject to racism in today’s game, the option to speak out simply wasn’t open to Canoville. Trapped by the confines of his own mind, and the expectations of toxic masculinity, this propagated a tension which, later in his life, would push him to the brink.
“I held a lot of tension,” he says. “Caribbean life means… should I say it like this: we’re never told to tell our problems outside of the house. ‘Your problem stays here. You don’t tell anyone nothing.’ That’s what it was
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“I held a lot of tension,” he says. “Caribbean life means… should I say it like this: we’re never told to tell our problems outside of the house. ‘Your problem stays here. You don’t tell anyone nothing.’ That’s what it was
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-a8677821.html