Marcus Rashford does not have the virtuosity of a Raheem Sterling, the accuracy of a Harry Keane or the speed of a Mo Salah. The attacker has never galvanized Old Traford or Wembley. It has never rubbed in the mode to song or merchandising. His style of play, modest, self-effacing, almost working, lack of radiance. The look timid, the end of the sentence inaudible and allure modest contrast with the “big mouths” – profile of football in English projected on the screens of the world football.
Yet, in a trice, at the age of 22, Rashford has become a legend. The humiliation that the winger Manchester United has inflicted on the Prime minister, Boris Johnson, has rushed to the a the press, under the spotlight. Never the Premier League, the English equivalent of League 1, had not seen such climbing.
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“food poverty in England is a pandemic that strikes multiple generations if we rest idly by” : the letter addressed by the English international in the Parliament at Westminster has the effect of a bomb. In this missive, Rashford called for the government to maintain the free meals offered by the schools to 1.3 million children during the school holidays so that the back-to-school has de facto been postponed to September because of sars coronavirus.
Tweets, petitions, attacks of the opposition, threats of rebellion of conservative mps in support of the public appalled… have had because of the initial refusal of Boris Johnson accept the request Rashford despite its small charge for the Treasure, 120 million pounds (132.5 million euros). The Prime minister has personally phoned the number 10 of the “Red Devils” for him to announce his volte-face to face to a campaign that mobilized the country for days.
The child of Wythenshawe
To explain the enormous impact of the crusade Rashford, it is necessary to go back to the youth athlete’s black. Born in a family of five children in the district disinherited of Wythenshawe, south of Manchester, he was raised in a HOUSING project grimy alongside his four brothers and sisters by his mother after his father had left the home. The latter accumulates the small precarious jobs paid at the minimum wage. The family survives on social assistance, food banks, and especially the morning meal and the noon served at the school.
Noticed at the age of eleven for his talent with the round ball, Rashford is enrolled in the training center of Manchester United. Today a millionaire, ” the “Mancunian” has never forgotten the pain of his mother, ” I admire him. Five mouths to feed. The food was calculated at more closely. “
How to explain the refusal, initially, of Boris Johnson ? His decision was all the more surprising that, since its coming to power, the leader of the government endeavoured to forget his differences of language passed against Blacks. Had he not written in 1997, which is aimed at families of caribbean origin, that mothers raising children on their own produce “a generation of badly educated, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate” ? In 2002, the future mayor of London had said that the queen loved to visit in the Commonwealth ” because of the home négrillons waving the Union Jack “. If he apologized later on these wanderings, he sticks still to the skin a reputation of racist unrepentant within the population of color.
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In fact, Johnson refused the initial request for Rashford felt that it was part of the movement Black Lives Matter, which it is fundamentally opposed. The request is made at the time when the statues were déboulonnées to lag larigot. In particular, the graffiti affixed by a protester on the statue of Churchill, his hero, had révulsé the head of government, author of a biography of the ” Old Lion “.
The support of the leaders of the Premier League to Marcus Rashford is not devoid of ulterior motives. It allows you to forget the refusal of players to raid to accept a reduction of 30 % of their salary during the period of interruption of the championships. Furthermore, the bodies of the championship the most famous in the world are on the move. While one third of the players are black, the Premier League does not count as a black manager (the Portuguese Nuno Espírito Santo, coach of Wolverhampton, a native of São Tomé) and the spheres of government are 100 % white.
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“we need to do something… I say this as a young Black man who had to fight to reach the top inside the system in order to find my vocation” : Marcus Rashford can dream up. Today he is the favorite to win the title of ” sports personality of the year “, the trophy the most prestigious award at the end of the year by the public.
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