I wish it didn't take the tears of Azeem Rafiq to make people think or be 'heartbroken'. There will barely be a brown-skinned person in Britain who hasn't felt that smarting, holding back the tears feeling, while being told it was just banter.

Azeem Rafiq's harrowing testimony shows that the problem isn't about misreading the line on inappropriate humour. It's that there was an institutionalised problem of racism, of ritualistically humiliating players of colour, and minimising that problem by framing it as 'banter'.