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KADEEM SIMMONDS also wants to see actual support for women’s football

The topic of the blatant lack of diversity in the media has once again cropped up nervously from people working in the industry.

Unlike when the issue has been previously raised, it wasn’t in a newspaper editorial or after a sexist comment a TV presenter.

It was by four white men sitting around a table on a Sunday morning, in front of cameras for Sky Sports show Sunday Supplement.

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