And what about the 80 or so league clubs who have been in existence for longer and have never had a BAME manager?
It jumped out for me when that question was asked. As you say, he answered it well. Skin colour will only stop being an 'issue' when people stop flagging it up (like with that utterly stupid question that was asked).
I think I made the initial comparison. It was in the context that he got some experience in the Championship and did reasonably well. Which should have better prepared him for the transfer window and for this season
Why concentrate on City? 3% of the population is black, so 1 1/2 %are black males. So 2 black managers out of 92 is a reflection of the numbers. Can do anything with data, can’t you? The question to ask is how many of the many black footballers who have had successful careers here have been interested enough in pursuing a career in management to have taken their coaching badges to the required standard,
Wheels deffo came off at West Brom and continued for the rest of his tenure. Looks like he lost the dressing room to me.
You might have done accompanying me through Chapeltown in Leeds late at night having missed the last bus.
Chapeltown in the late 1960s was not a pleasant place to walk through late at night as a lone white male. Wasn’t particularly pleasant at any time of the day even in numbers. Funny how things change, in my grandad’s day being able to live in that area was an aspiration.
Well perhaps let's help then by not flagging it up as some sort of differentiator or 'issue'. Most kids don't even see it, we need to get to the same stage ... which won't ever happen whilst muppets keep unnecessarily flagging it up. Imposition of opposing values and cultures are however a different matter imo, but maybe not to go there (oops).
Was talking to Curtis Woodhouse on Saturday night. No one ever considered his ethnicity when he was younger. Most just admired his ability at anything sporting and dads wished their kids could play football like him.
Did that many times in student days (maybe not with you). Lived round the corner from the Hayfield. Remember one evening (the year after the riots) stepping out the front door of our student digs. To my left were a large crowd of angry blacks. To the right, riot police. We quickly retreated back inside to watch from a front bedroom window. The tense stand off continued for a while, without escalating.
He admits to fighting at school and in the streets after being racially abused: "I went from scrapping in the street and at school to fighting in the boxing ring from the age of 12. I was called a few names due to the colour of my skin, but with a quick smack in the mouth they soon backed off"
Doesn't seem odd at all. The colour of a person's skin does not effect ability as a football manager. It's not even an issue. If a person is talented enough they would be employed if they had bright purple with green poka dots skin. Likewise a player, don't remember anyone bringing up this issue when Pele and the Brazilians were the best team in the world by a country mile.
