So, the football league have actually done it !

Bullshit? Ask yourself why, with the huge amount of BAME players plying their trade in the Premieship and EFL so many feel it is not worth doing their coaching badges because they know most of them will never be offered a job. The Rooney rule is long overdue and hopefully a few clubs will use this as the kick up the arse that football needs to sort it's house out in this area.

That’s a view I suppose. But why would you not employ a black coach? Rangers have loads.

But surely, as in any walk of life, jobs should be given to who is judged to be the best person.

The quicker we move away from even discussing a persons colour, the better, in my opinion.

What next? What are we going to do when after the first 50 appointments, they were all seen to be given to white men? Stop white blokes applying for jobs until we have a token number of BAME in posts?

In fact, I’d go as far as to say that even the term BAME is unhelpful.


Not just a view, a fact. Some of the comments in this thread display casual racism by refusing to accept that there is an issue. You won't need token appointments if you give ALL the applicants a fair crack of the whip. If black people saw that there were opportunities to extend their football careers in coaching then a lot more would do their badges but currently, it is just QPR who are head and shoulders above other clubs in this area and the MBE awarded to Chris Ramsey only proves my point that when given a fair crack at a job, black people can excel just as much as white people. There are still too many troglodytes of the kind that booed Paul Canonville just for being black, even though he was playing for the club those fans claimed to support. You still see the overt racism in eastern European countries, Italy and a few others but over here the racists are far too clued up for overt racism and use dismissive language towards initiatives like this to get their message across. Even your own comment of "It’ll be fat or bald people next." is dismissive of what the EFL is trying to do. I am not even convinced that a lot of the vitriol directed at Ferdinand isn't because of his colour and the number of black coaches he has brought to the club. 

You missed out "Some of my best friends are black"

Bullshit? Ask yourself why, with the huge amount of BAME players plying their trade in the Premieship and EFL so many feel it is not worth doing their coaching badges because they know most of them will never be offered a job. The Rooney rule is long overdue and hopefully a few clubs will use this as the kick up the arse that football needs to sort it's house out in this area.

But we done same thing with Bircham. Difference OldR???

I did say we’d be doing it for fat people next. 😂

In all seriousness though, whilst you make a good argument, particularly allowing people to get experience of which they may ordinarily miss out on, I just think it’s a bit patronising.
How would you (and other applicants, come to that) feel going for an interview, suspecting that you were there for one reason alone. I may well be wrong here, but personally I’d feel more insulted than anything else.

And what about a good black applicant going for a job they are perfectly well qualified to do, where others of a dubious nature, fail to give them the credit they deserve for getting that far?

I have to say, whatever opinions people hold on it, I’m very happy to see that those against it, are so for reasons of good intent and not bigotry or hatred. 👍