Quotas for coloured coaches...


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joedurham

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.......... pc gone mad again. The day that one black, coffee-coloured or whatever hue coach does well and produces the goods, he'll be snapped up by the big clubs on merit - and on merit alone - but promoting anyone just on account of the shade of their skin colour is wrong. Treating anyone differently, positively or negatively - solely on account of their skin colour shade is racist. In this respect we all ought to be colour-blind.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/10/players-call-one-five-coaches-ethnic-minorities-2020
 
.......... pc gone mad again. The day that one black, coffee-coloured or whatever hue coach does well and produces the goods, he'll be snapped up by the big clubs on merit - and on merit alone - but promoting anyone just on account of the shade of their skin colour is wrong. Treating anyone differently, positively or negatively - solely on account of their skin colour shade is racist. In this respect we all ought to be colour-blind.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/10/players-call-one-five-coaches-ethnic-minorities-2020

Agreed. England are producing few enough good players without lowering the coaching talent by demanding that a black coach be employed even if he isn't any good. If a black coach is good enough I'm sure they'll get jobs, "positive discrimination" isnt the way to go about addressing the disparity in the number of coaches from ethnic minority backgrounds compared to white coaches
 
Let the FA lead by example ..... when Woy is replaced then let them give the job to a black FA qualified coach AND also make a statement in favour of another example of "positive discrimination"

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Also ..... Rio Ferdinand will be a Manager at a Premier League club in the next couple of years
 
We best get in there first and appoint Trevor Sinclair as a coach so we can wave the PC card in everyone else's face which is always satisfying.
 
I'm sure there was a really long thread about the Rooney Rule on here within the last month or so, and I'm sure it covered a wide range of views, debates, serious responses and wind-ups that this one will inevitably end up in, mods should merge them now to save us all the bother.
 
Agreed. England are producing few enough good players without lowering the coaching talent by demanding that a black coach be employed even if he isn't any good. If a black coach is good enough I'm sure they'll get jobs, "positive discrimination" isnt the way to go about addressing the disparity in the number of coaches from ethnic minority backgrounds compared to white coaches

So how do they prove they are good enough if they don't get the job?

Recruitment of managers and coaches in English football is a closed shop. Perpetual failures go from club to club getting jobs, on anything but merit.

Did Neil Warnock really deserve another shot at the Premier League when he has never been able to keep a team in it and he had just been sacked by Leeds United for finishing in the bottom half of the Championship?

If a black manager had been such a dismal failure as Brendan Rodgers was at Reading and Watford, would he really be Liverpool manager within 2 years?

How come Alan Pardew was sacked for failure at West Ham, then sacked for relegating Charlton (and taking them to the bottom of the Championship), then unable to get Southampton promoted from the third division (even though they had Rickie Lambert, Jose Fonte, Morga Schneiderlin, Adam Lallana in the side), then his next job is in the Premier League?

How come Paolo Di Canio went from one promotion in the Fourth Division to managing in the Premier League, when he was always, obviously, way out of his depth?

Could it be anything to do with the fact that every one of those managers had social connections to get them into those positions, whether that be Warnock knowing the Palace owners, Rodgers using his Chelsea connections, Pardew knowing Mike Ashley, or Di Canio eating in the same restaurant as Ellis Short?

People on here get very defensive and touchy on this subject. They like to tell themselves that appointments are on merit, and there are simply no black managers / coaches who are good enough to be appointed to top jobs. No doubt people will start showing pictures of Paul Ince's notebook within a couple of posts. They miss the point. The point is not whether a club chairman has ever sat down and thought 'I will not appoint so and so as manager because he is black'. The point is that the whole managerial recruitment within football is done on the basis of connections, and anything but merit. That is why only 19 of the top 552 positions are taken by black people. That is unfair and discriminatory and people who challenge it are right to do so.
 
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