This all comes down to trying to level the playing field, something Sol Campbell obviously feels isn't happening in football today.
I used to get a lot of this back in the equal ops training days. "Why isn't there a White history month?" was the usual.
If you are from a minority ethnic background, like Mr Campbell, and you look around and see lots and lots of white coaches and managers there is every chance that you feel unrepresented. Fact is most interviews at football clubs would be held by white folks and the majority of candidates that get interviewed would be white folks too. Is it any wonder then that there aren't many black managers? Foreign managers don't appear to have a problem. I bet we could name more overseas managers than black ones.
Most of the "what about rights for whites?" brigade were intolerable bigots and racists, not all but most. Being black doesn't make you a great manager though, something we have had first hand experience of at QPR. I was quite chuffed that we gave the job to Ramsey at the time, just a shame he wasn't much use at anything other than handing the bibs and cones out. His inability to manage well had nothing to do with his colour but at least he was given a fair crack at it, something not many other clubs have done.
