Leyton Orient Goalkeeper Heaps Praise Upon Chelsea's Edouard Mendy

He said: "It's something that I think is changing. I look at Mendy at Chelsea - I had never heard of him when he signed for Chelsea - and he's been amazing, and he has paved the way for a lot of black goalkeepers.

"We can look up to him as a reference for what he's done in the recent past especially and I feel like that perception is starting to change a little bit."

The League Two shot-stopper continued to express how difficult it is being a goalkeeper of colour as he said: "It's not common that you see a black goalkeeper.

"I think a lot of the perception was that, 'He's got a mistake in him' and I've had to battle through that my whole career. And not just me - there's loads of other black goalies that have had to deal with it."

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