Trailblazer Yan Dhanda has told Sky Sports that British South Asians in Football still face an uphill battle against stereotyping and unconscious bias in the game.
Former Liverpool youngster Dhanda, who said he has loved his two years away from England playing for the Ross County faithful, is one of Britain's highest-profile footballers from a South Asian background - and has been joined in Scotland for the second half of the season by Birmingham City loanee Brandon Khela.
The Indian-heritage pair wrote their name into club folklore on Sunday by helping Ross County claim a massive three points and their first-ever victory over Rangers after 24 previous attempts.
Sky Sports News exclusively revealed in January that the West Midlands pair had made history in January when they lined up for Ross County at Celtic Park.
It was the first time two British South Asians had both started a top-flight match in the SPFL and a proud moment for Scottish football as well as Sikhs and Indians all over the world.
England's Premier League season, by contrast, looks set to end with zero South Asian representation on the pitch for the second successive season - the first time that has happened in almost 15 years.
There is just one footballer from Britain's South Asian community playing regularly in the men's second tier, Leicester City's Hamza Choudhury, and only one regular in the Women's Championship, Blackburn Rovers' Millie Chandarana.
Dhanda featured alongside the duo in last year's inaugural South Asians in Football Team of the Season.
Asked why there has been a stigma towards South Asian communities trying to make their way in the game, Dhanda told Sky Sports: "I just think, I've said it before that people stereotype [South] Asians to doing
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