yea I felt uncomfortable listening to that.
Some people would defend it by saying they'd ask the same question to Rice about his decision to pick England over Ireland, but questioning someone from a minority group about their allegiance when they're sitting in front of you representing England is just typical brain-dead racist British journalism. Some of them just don't see black players as equal, we know that, there's a mountain of evidence to showcase that - and questions like that are designed to get a "MAINOO: HOW I ALMOST CHOSE GHANA INSTEAD OF ENGLAND" headline to beat him with.
Mainoo handled it really well, but why even bring it up?