Another black manager sacked

Breadman wrote:I don't know the actual stats but I would imagine that the number of black players in the English leagues is disproportionately high compared to the number of black people in the country.

So then, given that a traditional route into management is to have been a professional player, "do your badges" and then get a job in the lower leagues managing somebody shit, you would expect there to be far more black managers in the game.

bwfc1874 wrote:There's no Rooney rule in football (only the American kind), the way things are going though I'd expect it to be introduced soon. Particularly given it's success across the pond. I think it's really difficult to make a judgement on these things without first hand experience, we may not be racists (most of us anyway) but I think it's naive to suggest it doesn't exist in football. The evidence suggests that black managers aren't getting the same opportunities.

Boggersbelief wrote:

Breadman wrote:I don't know the actual stats but I would imagine that the number of black players in the English leagues is disproportionately high compared to the number of black people in the country.

So then, given that a traditional route into management is to have been a professional player, "do your badges" and then get a job in the lower leagues managing somebody shit, you would expect there to be far more black managers in the game.

Maybe they aren't very authoritative people

bwfc1874 wrote:

Boggersbelief wrote:

Breadman wrote:I don't know the actual stats but I would imagine that the number of black players in the English leagues is disproportionately high compared to the number of black people in the country.

So then, given that a traditional route into management is to have been a professional player, "do your badges" and then get a job in the lower leagues managing somebody shit, you would expect there to be far more black managers in the game.

Maybe they aren't very authoritative people

Say it to his face

Boggersbelief wrote:

Breadman wrote:I don't know the actual stats but I would imagine that the number of black players in the English leagues is disproportionately high compared to the number of black people in the country.

So then, given that a traditional route into management is to have been a professional player, "do your badges" and then get a job in the lower leagues managing somebody shit, you would expect there to be far more black managers in the game.

Maybe they aren't very authoritative people

finlaymcdanger wrote:

Boggersbelief wrote:

Breadman wrote:I don't know the actual stats but I would imagine that the number of black players in the English leagues is disproportionately high compared to the number of black people in the country.

So then, given that a traditional route into management is to have been a professional player, "do your badges" and then get a job in the lower leagues managing somebody shit, you would expect there to be far more black managers in the game.

Maybe they aren't very authoritative people

Nelson Mandela? Martin Luther King Jr.? Frederick Douglas? Rosa Parks? Oliver Tambo? Malcolm X? Barack Obama?

If you like, I can recommend a few good books.

Boggersbelief wrote:

finlaymcdanger wrote:

Boggersbelief wrote:

Breadman wrote:I don't know the actual stats but I would imagine that the number of black players in the English leagues is disproportionately high compared to the number of black people in the country.

So then, given that a traditional route into management is to have been a professional player, "do your badges" and then get a job in the lower leagues managing somebody shit, you would expect there to be far more black managers in the game.

Maybe they aren't very authoritative people

Nelson Mandela? Martin Luther King Jr.? Frederick Douglas? Rosa Parks? Oliver Tambo? Malcolm X? Barack Obama?

If you like, I can recommend a few good books.

Who did they play for?

Norpig wrote:it's nothing to do with colour it's the fact they aren't doing a good job

Reebok Trotter wrote:

Norpig wrote:it's nothing to do with colour it's the fact they aren't doing a good job

Nailed it.

bwfc1874 wrote:

Reebok Trotter wrote:

Norpig wrote:it's nothing to do with colour it's the fact they aren't doing a good job

Nailed it.

In the case of the managers who have been sacked, yes. 

But the question is actually why more black managers don't get the chance in the first place,

bwfc1874 wrote:I read the thread.

Breadman wrote:Given that the thread's called "Another black manager sacked" I reckon it was already pretty much about race to begin with.