Former England international Terry Fenwick says he never had any major racism problems as head coach of San Juan Jabloteh in the T&T Pro League.
The league itself has never had cause to launch any campaigns to “kick racism out” with the majority of players and officials being of African origin with some players from South America while there are match officials of East Indian origin.
“Thank God I’m the only white guy in the Pro League so there’s not much reason for racial abuse,” Fenwick laughed. “But seriously, it was a bit tough in my early days as a coach but thankfully I’ve never had any major incidents on that level.
People would say what they have to and they would probably refer to you as white boy or white man but I don’t think it’s ever come across as racial abuse. I haven’t seen anything like this except for maybe once or twice in the twelve years I’ve been here. I don’t think Trinidadians are generally of that nature.”
As to whether he thinks the League should still launch campaigns similar to that of Kick Racism out of Football, Fenwick replied: “Well it could be a bit of a tricky situation.
I know that there are several match officials in the Pro league who are East Indians and we first need to decide whether we need to launch such a campaign as it relates to football or otherwise.”