It's hardly pointless. Footballing bodies across the world have long campaigned (rightly) to 'kick racism out of football'. So when there are so few black managers, utterly disproportionate to the number of players, well, you have to raise an eyebrow.
....Conversely, one could argue that there are too many black pundits on the telly when compared to the ratios of black & white ex-players.....
Seriously though....the managers argument is pointless unless someone can embellish it with some real data regarding percentages of ex players from different ethnic groups taking & passing all their badges etc.
Until then...its all bizzle shizzle...
I guess it is hard to say without seeing how many black managers apply for jobs, how many are qualified etc.
It's not hard to say. Would anybody here say that homosexuality is a sorted issue in football? Nope. Why wouldn't we say it? Because we only need to look at the data. Footballers remain in the closet.
Same thing goes here. We can say we live in a post-racial society, but we only need to look at the data...
Well it is, because if there aren't many black people qualified to be top managers then it could explain why there aren't black people as top managers. If they aren't applying for jobs then that could be why.
If however for example it is 50/50 on how many black people are qualified and 50% of applicants for every job are black, then of course something is very wrong. Or if there are loads qualified and not many applying for jobs.
Why would 25% of former black players train to get their managerial qualifications if they had no intention of applying for jobs?!
Indeed. Even then, stats don't say everything either, as there can be implicit barriers that stop you even trying if the culture is intrinsically against you.
I dunno, in an ideal world positive discrimination tends to annoy me as it seems to fly in the face of a true equality, where balance is found naturally. If, however, there's a problem what do you do? Ignore it and hope it goes away? The fact so few black managers come through relative to players is a concern, as true prejudice is usually found in who gets certain jobs. The fact black players can break through but not managers fits a little uneasily for me into the stereotype of black men being naturally athletic but not as intelligent...
In a world where the turnover of managers is pretty high too, you'd certainly expect a few more given the opportunity given the general qualification for becoming a manager is playing at a half-decent level.
So I'll sit on the fence and say the issue needs looking at, but I don't know what the solution is.
Automatic interviews for everybody if it is genuine equality of opportunity.
Why would 25% of former black players train to get their managerial qualifications if they had no intention of applying for jobs?!
I think we have to remove the name Paul Ince from this, and look at the issue in isolation.
I know plenty of people who go to Uni and get degrees and don't use them. I wasn't saying that IS the situation, just that there are lots of possibilities. Do they then go into coaching using these badges, I don't know?
This argument doesn't factor in proportionality. If there are some black managers who don't apply for jobs after receiving their qualification, then presumably there would be a proportionate number of white managers who don't either. That still doesn't explain the 2% figure.
And in this day and age, it becomes increasingly hard to identify 'other possibilities' because managers get fired so frequently. The turnover is immense. Only one thing seems to stay the same...
Could you? Around a quarter of players are black. Are a quarter of footie pundits black?
That can be done: linky
At the time of that article (2010) 25% of those taking the qualifications were black - proportional to those playing.
I agree with the last bit, maybe I just find it strange / alien that people could just judge a football manager on his skin colour and not results / performance. At least with gay footballers I can see that with the fans and other players (not that I agree with it).
Does anybody hand on heart on here believe that a chairman would give a job to lesser performing white manager over a better performing black manager because of race? That is essentially the accusation
There are only two black managers to choose from...
Surely there are loads of unemployed ones?
There's not that many though as there's never been many given a chance at management in the first place. Off the top of my head I can only think of hughton, ince, curle and tiguana in the top 3 leagues ever. (Although I may have forgotten some)
Leroy Rosenior springs to mind...
Former managers wasn't really the point though...
There's not that many though as there's never been many given a chance at management in the first place. Off the top of my head I can only think of hughton, ince, curle and tiguana in the top 3 leagues ever. (Although I may have forgotten some)
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There's not that many though as there's never been many given a chance at management in the first place. Off the top of my head I can only think of hughton, ince, curle and tiguana in the top 3 leagues ever. (Although I may have forgotten some)
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Quite right, he's just an arrogant prick, same as Sol " I would have been England captain for ten years if I wasn't black" Campbell. It's always about them, they couldn't give a toss about anybody else, the self pitying selfish tossers.I suppose if more black managers were around to manage and were good enough ...then they would be appointed , i hate people like ince who pointlessly bring race into an argument
Quite right, he's just an arrogant prick, same as Sol " I would have been England captain for ten years if I wasn't black" Campbell. It's always about them, they couldn't give a toss about anybody else, the self pitying selfish tossers.
And don't get me started on the abomination of so called Fucking "positive discrimination," what gives any body, absolutely anybody, the right to tell any other person that they are a positive and therefore more entitled than the next person, just because they have a different skin tone. My children all happen to be white, so if they are discriminated against, that is ok then is it? We'll actually, no it fucking we'll is not! Discrimination is discrimination regardless.
The way I look at it is if black managers were that good as Ince says then why haven't they all got jobs?
Because they are never given a chance to prove they are any good?
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