One of Brian Clough's less admirable career episodes concerned his dealings with the centre forward Justin Fashanu. By his own admission, the former Nottingham Forest manager called Fashanu out for being gay. In his autobiography, he describes him as a 'poof'.
We will not be tearing down the statue of Clough that stands in Nottingham city centre and nor should we. Clough was an epoch-defining manager and we must learn as much from what he did wrong as from what he did right.
Football has moved on and continues to move forwards.
Sky Sports' Laura Woods spoke of the sneering innuendo that has accompanied her progress
It continues to progress too slowly in some areas but, as the swell of player support for the Black Lives Matter movement has shown, there is a will at the very least and that is never a bad starting point.