SurreyMackem
Striker
If you don't have the relevant qualifications, and/or don't apply, you can't get a job. In any walk of life.
Isn't that the problem.
They are qualified and do apply but they don't get interviewed.
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If you don't have the relevant qualifications, and/or don't apply, you can't get a job. In any walk of life.
Jesus Christ. Please, stop talking now. It's 2014 for fuck's sake.
Isn't that the problem.
They are qualified and do apply but they don't get interviewed.
Bad ?Good?
What level do you coach at mate and has it been worthwhile spending all that money?If we adopt the Rooney rule in this country will I have to shag old prossies to get a coaching job?
But seriously I've spent upwards of £25000 on my coach education and I've reached a glass ceiling. Being qualified doesn't mean I can walk into a top job. Connections help as does a reputation or stellar playing career but difficulties in being recruited aren't restricted to the BME demographic of our society.
In my opinion there aren't enough bald, slightly colour blind (no correlation to the un PC thread title), allergic to mushroom managers in this country.
Take that campaign forward PFA!!
Bassas.
Your post implied that it was good that there is institutionalised racism, sexism and homophobia in footballBad ?
Isn't that the problem.
They are qualified and do apply but they don't get interviewed.
.......... 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
Isn't that the problem.
They are qualified and do apply but they don't get interviewed.
The term Black (which apparently includes Asian and other dark skin races) has come into the Mainstream speech over the all 10 years, I've got an Asian mate who hates being called black..does that make him a racist
In addition, why aren't the likes of Ollie Holt making it their mission to go to the likes of Dwight Yorke, Andy Cole, Ian Wright, Stan Collymore, David James, Dion Dublin and Emile Heskey - all players with glittering top flight careers - and ask them why they didn't go into coaching? Apologies if there are some interviews with those players out there that touch on the subject.
Yep it's 2014 and people are asking why the number of BEM players currently in football is not reflected in the number of managers in professional football. Instead of making snide comments, perhaps you might care to venture as to why this is so. Be careful what you say though as it is a potentially dangerous topic.
The same goes for our resident buffoon Chunky.
The Rooney rule in the US addressed a much deeper issue, imo.
Athletes in that sport are outsider commodities, often taken out of deprived and majority-black communities and implanted into privileged majority-white colleges. In a country built on black slavery, there's a slightly odd undercurrent of division between the races in the NFL - black people are powerful physical specimens that exist to do what the smart white people tell them to do.
This culture doesn't exist in English football. Everyone has the same opportunity to get into the professional game, and everyone has the same access to badges when they near the end of their career.
Here's a starting XI of black former England players who are at or near management age;
David James - bankrupt, after trying to get rich via trading. Has managed in low quality, high earning leagues - China, India. No coaching badges.
Rio Ferdinand - Baseball cap salesman, TV pundit. No coaching badges.
Des Walker - Currently playing exhibition games around the world. Started his coaching badges, gave up.
Sol Campbell - Claims the FA choose Gary Neville over him on the grounds of race. Sol Campbell has yet to complete his badges.
Ashley Cole - Playing in Italy, planning move to US. No coaching badges.
Carlton Palmer - Pundit. Set up coaching schools in Dubai and China, but no formal coaching badges.
Paul Ince - Has badges. 8 year managerial career now stalled after repeated failure.
John Barnes - Has Badges. Managerial career now stalled after repeated failure.
Shaun Wright Phillips - Still playing. No badges.
Les Ferdinand - Has badges, former coach of Spurs.
Andy Cole - Believes that "there’s still a glass ceiling when it comes to black players in management”. No badges.
It strikes me that there's a strong correlation between having coaching badges and getting coaching jobs.
But I'm no expert.