It’s about giving people the chance they deserve.
Raheem Sterling is, as always, ready in the least, when the BBC’s Newsnight asks him to relate to the situation at the top of English football; the Premier League.
Manchester City star is the clear conviction that the representation of black people in the top of the English football is too small.
Not among the players but among cheftrænerne, managers.
And it is something fodboldforbundet and the Premier League will have to relate to, he says in continuation of the George Floyd-the movement and the hundreds of demonstrations both in the UNITED states as the rest of the world.
– It is the right time addressing these issues, talk about injustice – especially in my profession, ” he says.
– That are in the vicinity of the 500 players in the Premier League, and a third of them are black, and we are not represented further up in the hierarchy, no representation in the trænerjobbene, he says and adds that doing so is not someone we can relate to and have conversations with.
Sterling, who has never been afraid to speak out in the discussion on racism in the English and international football, welcomes that which is spoken on the subject.
– But it is time that we start actual conversations about it – and get the opportunity to get some debates, he says.
He refers to four of the great English players of the last 20 years: Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole.
– It is a perfect example. There are Steven Gerrard (Rangers), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole. They all had great careers and played all of England.
– They have all four completed their education, so they can train at the highest level, and the two, who have not had the right conditions and opportunities, the two black former players.
– It is here, it lags. It’s not just about to kneel, which is to give people the chance they deserve, he says with clear reference to, to tend towards symbolic policy is fine, but be followed it is not of action, it may not be very.
Sol Campbell has the past few seasons trained Macclesfield Town and Southend United respectively in the fourth and the third best number in England.
Sol Campbell as manager of Southend United in 2019. Photo credit: James Chance/
Ashley Cole set his career last summer and has since expressed a desire to become a coach. In October, he returned back to Chelsea to become a youth coach.
Campbell has been trying for years to talk about the topic. He has previously referred to the English football association, FA, as racist. And in 2019, he said to Sky Sports:
– If you took my skin color and my name away and gave them a piece of paper and said, ” this here man has made it here and ’will be interested in an interview’, of course they would say yes.
The English newspaper The Independent made a statement two years ago with the following facts:
Since 1990, every fourth england player, who has set career, been black or of another ethnic background. But it is only every seventh ended up as manager or coach in one of the five top ranks in England or in one of the five big leagues in Europe.
Since 1990, only five black players made the leap to a career as a manager. Only one of them reached up at the Premier League level – and it lasted half a year. Can you remember who? Otherwise you can read it at the bottom of the article.
Chris Hughton is an exception. He stood in the four-and-a-half years in charge of Brighton & Hove Albion in the top of the English fodboldrækker – until he was fired last summer. Photo: John Sibley/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
Since the beginning of the millennium, the number of black players, according to The Independent increased, ’but while 25 percent of white players ended up in the manager positions the subsequent, it only happened for ten percent of the black players’, wrote the newspaper.
another interesting fact: Only seven percent of all managers in the top English fodboldrækker and 2.6 percent overall in English football is either black or of other ethnic origin. According to the League Managers’ Association, trænernes trade union, has about two-thirds of all black managers have never been offered job number two.
The black manager, who managed to get a job in the Premier League, Paul Ince, who in 2008 was employed in the Blackburn Rovers. Already in december, after half a year with miserable results, he was however fired. He has since trained Milton Keynes Dons, Leyton Orient and Blackpool.
Paul Ince as Blackburn manager. It lasted half a year. Photo: Darren Staples/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
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