CNN CNN Newsroom Live September 13, 2019 06:51:00
People, if you can't see it, you can't be it. >> reporter: joe is a referee, who officiates four levels below the english premier league. a former semiprofessional player, he picked up the whistle in 2009. he was inspired by the first and only black referee ever to work in the premier league. he retired a decade ago. he wants to follow in rennie's footsteps. there's no pathway to the top, with zero black referees in engla england's top four divisions. >> i thought to myself, i want to go up. i want to go up. i want to be there. and i remember speaking to other referees and my phone was ringing...
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