Since the start of the 2007-08 football season 15 Premier League managers have quit of been sacked. Only oneof them caused people to ask the question: whether his departure was to do with his race.
Fortunately, this was balanced by this article by David James.
However, it was interesting to note that the ground had been set before his departure by a couple of articles. One presented him as a role model to others, while another one was actually written by Ince himself in which he talks about racism as a cause of there being no black managers in the Premier League.
The article by Eboda did warn that Ince’s job was not going to be easy.
The sacking of Ince represented 100% of black managers in the same league which I believe is the real problem i.e. we have so few black managers in the top leagues; I am assuming the situation is better lower down. I look forward to the day when we have quite a few black managers in the top league to enable us not to see them as black but just managers.
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Submitted by karamat on Sun, 2009-01-04 21:53.