he's been a driving force at whatever club he's played for. commentator: and who else | but the talismanic troy deeney! and now he's laying down a challenge to the government. former watford striker troy deeney telling me he wants more diversity to be mandatory in the school curriculum. no—one's saying that every single history lesson has to be about black, asian and mixed ethnicities. we are saying that over the course of a 12—month period, where kids are at school, that we can learn a little bit about everybody and keep doing that from a younger age. i think a lot of what's going on in the school curriculum right across the board is very much a horse racing mentality — that the blinkers are on and we're looking here. deeney was a key figure behind premier league players' decision to take the knee before matches in support of racial equality, and he's now written an open letter to the education secretary claiming the current system is failing children from ethnic minorities. i always find it quite disheartening, really, that the only representation we have from a black perspective is always