Assistant coach says dressing room is free of discrimination‘We’ve got a very diverse group – I know everyone feels welcome’Paul Collingwood, the assistant coach, has said the Azeem Rafiq affair has been discussed by the
England players and insisted that the national team’s dressing room is an open environment free of intimidation and discrimination.
“Of course, when something as big as this is in the news you have a chat about it,” he said. “But over the last few years we’ve done a lot of work in our dressing room to make it a place that everyone wants to be. We’ve worked hard to encourage respect and unity in the dressing room and that’s a motto that we live by.