This isn’t just about Yorkshire, or even sport: it’s about how when racism takes hold, it poisons the air everyone breathes
Days after Azeem Rafiq revealed the torment he faced as an Asian player, the situation at Yorkshire cricket club looks no better.
His account, of being ostracised, of being referred to by the P-word and by names he knew to be racist codes, of the complicity of teammates, of managers, of the tawdry attempts by prominent figures to discredit him, now lives as a shameful historical testament. Years from now, it may be the moment eyes were opened and things got better; rather that than as a missed opportunity.
Hugh Muir is a Guardian columnist
