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Chris Hughton sacked by Ghana.


Good Socialist and his win record as manager compares favourably with Mowbray.
Likes a defensive, counter attacking style of play. We already do the latter bit well....
 
Fats said:
Like to think this is just a whoosh, but can never be sure on here.
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It's a fair point. It seems 'white' western culture is the only one that demands diversity targets, so called positive discrimination and so on.
I don't see it happening anywhere else.
 
Always came across as a decent bloke but then what do I know. I though the same about Beheadie till he took the Saudis' filthy lucre.
Would still have Hughton hear in a hearbeat.
 
Cee Jay said:
Alan Boozil gutted at Chrissy's sacking...nearly as bad as whenever "wee Davy" is under threat of being sacked
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Don't mind Brazil but cannot stand the closed shop of the boys club, that's the trouble with all these shows they've all got their noses in the trough so don't criticise and apparently no manager should ever be sacked
 
Morse said:
It's a fair point. It seems 'white' western culture is the only one that demands diversity targets, so called positive discrimination and so on.
I don't see it happening anywhere else.
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9 out of 24 managers at the ACFON are white. That's a little under 40%.
0 out of 24 managers at the last Euros were black.
 
Morse said:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Its telling that the person having a go at Africa for not being diverse enough (Even though that is completely incorrect) is the same person who laughs at the term socialist.

The list of successful managers who were 'good socialists' is long and impressive and maybe, just maybe, having a socialist outlook that respects everyone is a decent trait in a football manager. This lot did and are doing OK with that outlook;

Bill Shankley
Jock Stein
Matt Busby
Brian Clough
Bob Paisley
Jack Charlton
Arsene Wenger
Peter Reid
Marcelo Bielsa
Alex Ferguson
Jurgen Klopp

Maybe having a 'Good Socialist' as a manager isn't such a bad thing?
 
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Bassman92 said:
9 out of 24 managers at the ACFON are white. That's a little under 40%.
0 out of 24 managers at the last Euros were black.
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The recruitment of white managers in Africa has nothing to do with diversity targets, though, which is my point. I'm not sure diversity targets and positive discrimination even exist outside of western culture. Here there's quotas and minority-only recruitment drives, which is of course blatant racism. It's just it's the 'right' kind of racism.

People should be hired on merit, not skin colour. Businesses that discriminate on skin colour should of course be prosecuted.
tynevalleyblackcat said:
Its telling that the person having a go at Africa for not being diverse enough (Even though that is completely incorrect) is the same person who laughs at the term socialist.

The list of successful managers who were 'good socialists' is long and impressive and maybe, just maybe, having a socialist outlook that respects everyone is a decent trait in a football manager. This lot did and are doing OK with that outlook;

Bill Shankley
Jock Stein
Matt Busby
Brian Clough
Bob Paisley
Jack Charlton
Arsene Wenger
Peter Reid
Marcelo Bielsa
Alex Ferguson
Jurgen Klopp

Maybe having a 'Good Socialist' as a manager isn't such a bad thing?
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I wasn't laughing at the term 'socialist', I was laughing at 'good socialist' being used as some sort of character reference for a football manager. It was bizarre to see in a football thread.
It makes as much sense as saying he's a 'good Christian'.
I don't care what a manager's political background is, as long as they aren't at either extreme of the spectrum. WTF does it have to do with football?
I've nothing against socialists or socialism for that matter. I live below the poverty line, ffs.

Finally, let's be clear on this - I know there's plenty of white people in Africa, living, working and born there. I never said there wasn't, nor did I say Africa wasn't diverse.
I don't like straw man tactics and deliberate misrepresentation, so please pack it in.

I'm going to quote my own post for you, please read it again.


It's a fair point. It seems 'white' western culture is the only one that demands diversity targets, so called positive discrimination and so on.
I don't see it happening anywhere else.

Nothing at all like what you're claiming I said.
Fats said:
I wouldn't have bothered responding. I feel soiled enough that he chose to quote a post of mine.
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'Feel soiled'! :lol:
You're being a tad oversensitive, I think. Bizarre that you won't reply to me, this board really is going to shit with too many people who would rather make snide comments than debate. If I'm wrong and there's non-western countries that have diversity targets and positive discrimination quotas, then I'm genuinely curious, I'm just not aware of it.

Weird that you soiled yourself reading my post. ;)
 
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tynevalleyblackcat said:
Its telling that the person having a go at Africa for not being diverse enough (Even though that is completely incorrect) is the same person who laughs at the term socialist.

The list of successful managers who were 'good socialists' is long and impressive and maybe, just maybe, having a socialist outlook that respects everyone is a decent trait in a football manager. This lot did and are doing OK with that outlook;

Bill Shankley
Jock Stein
Matt Busby
Brian Clough
Bob Paisley
Jack Charlton
Arsene Wenger
Peter Reid
Marcelo Bielsa
Alex Ferguson
Jurgen Klopp

Maybe having a 'Good Socialist' as a manager isn't such a bad thing?
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Better than having some twat with a cockney accent from Bromley?

[this is a joke btw before the Ali Beale Massive arrive]
 
HoffTTM said:
Got Brighton promoted and kept them up twice, surely worth a look over the present waste of space
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I wouldn't say no. The problem is unless we strengthen in this window he'll be pissing into the same wind that TM and Beale were/are.
That wind being Speakman... :p

Mind, I think he'd get on with the players and fans a lot better than Beale, which would improve the atmosphere dramatically.
If it's either/or, Hughton wins by a country parsec...
 
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