Think it's about time this lot ****ed off. Obsessed with telling us all we're a set of racist ****s, despite that football is one of the most inclusive sports there is. Almost every other sport is dominated by people from one particular nationality or ethnicity. Football is the only truly global sport open to all yet they're constantly telling us there aren't enough black managers and whatever else. Today they've released results of a poll from some players (200) supporting their claim that it should be made mandatory for clubs to short-list black candidates for all non-playing jobs. I mean what the ****? If it was the other way round that would be a race scandal and rightly so. They're fighting some imaginary race battle by trying to implement a racially discriminate rule. Along with the 'There aren't enough gay players' brigade it's all a bit irritating. The only people making a fuss out of these things are the campaign groups and media who are desperate to invent a problem, no one else even cares about a players/managers ethnicity.
Erik'll love this thread. The ****ing bigot. Just chill out and watch Harry and the Hendersons: [NSFW] please log in to view this image [/NSFW]
When I saw Erik had posted on here I thought "Great, that'll make the thread look racist." I was pleasantly surprised.
I agree PLT. There's no prejudice in football, well at least there's none outside of the FA, if you're good enough, you'll get a job whether you're white, black, yellow, brown, blue, green, purple, gay, straight, ginger, fat.... It doesn't matter. There's no problem. Sol Campbell would apply for the Man United/city/Chelsea job as a first managerial post and cry racism when he doesn't get it. It's all engineered campaign group bullshit, like no to hull tigers.
Women make up 50% of the population. How come they aren't insisting more women get considered as well?
Hope Powell was the poster girl. Female, black, lesbian...she had it all. In the end she let them all down.
the most employable peron on the planet must be A black lesbian jewish woman in a wheelchair from Albania
Not disabled so didn't quite tick all the boxes. Was she any different to a male manager letting a team down? Nope.
I've asked that a few times. I can't believe there's not one woman on the planet that can't play in the league pyramid. The kit'd be clean too.
Okay. I don't normally bother with threads like this (because what is the point?). I fully believe that a lot of you are genuinely sincere when you say that most are not racist now, everyone is equal, stuff should be on merit etc... But this goes against what many minorities in the game ACTUALLY SAY. With the Sol Campbell thing, you don't have to agree with every point the guy makes - but so many just silence him, and laugh. Many other people in football speak out - but are silenced, e.g. in the OP campaign groups are "making a fuss". How about we listen to people who have experience of these issues in football? Rather than getting really defensive because you not hating black people = it is impossible for there to be institutional racism. As I say, I am somewhat sympathetic to your views. A lot of you guys fully believe that people deserve to be equal - so let's just ignore race/sexuality etc... and if anybody mentions it, they are "kicking up a fuss" or "playing the race card". But if we actually listen to the experiences of actual minorities in football, we might learn something, rather than taking the hunches of straight white males on internet forums with no such experiences, but with perhaps mildly good intentions. I don't think I want to get too involved in this debate. I tend not to bother on this forum. But i'd just like to say that.
In most professions, if a task force fails they sack them. With this 'issue' which we are told is getting worse, they don't sack the task force, they just given them even more money and resources- such are the rewards of failure in the diversity industry!
If they're good enough then they'll get the job. Surely those who bring race or sexuality into it are the bigots by highlighting the issue when it isn't there?
That's the other thing. On SSN's 'Sportswomen' programme this week they're looking at who is to blame for the lack of sponsorship in women's football. FFS it's business. If enough people watch it it'll get sponsored. The problem is obviously not enough people watching. Desperate to make everything into an equality crisis.
