Police say they will not let a minority spoil the game and warn they will seek banning orders for any offenders.

BBC: Blackburn and Burnley fans in police banning order warning

The Fritz Pollard Alliance, a group of minority coaches and front-office, scouting and game-day NFL officials, wants the Rooney Rule expanded to apply to coordinators, assistant head coaches and club president positions.

NPR: Black Ex-Coaches Say NFL's Rooney Rule Is Broken

It's hard to see the Hume solution - joint referenda on both sides of the border on a deal, institutions at Stormont with safeguards for the minority, an acceptance of the principle of consent, and a promise of future referenda if the numbers game changes - being bettered.

BBC: Can the dissidents be brought in from the cold?

Chris Williams, the boss of Williams Capital, a boutique investment bank, thinks that minority-run financial firms can still struggle to get into the game, but that this may have less to do with racism than with another Wall Street vice, cronyism.

ECONOMIST: Wall Street

For so long as Britain remains in a minority outside the monetary union, its interests (such as the City of London bond markets) will be fair game for the majority inside it.

ECONOMIST: Britain and Europe