Could There Be Definite Discrimination Here?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/01/pfa-backroom-jobs-football-ethnic-minorities

[jim360]

4% is rather disproportionate, so I'd be suspicious, but we'd also need to know what the application rate is.

[agchristie]

Football is a cut- throat business with massive financial pressures so the need to recruit properly and succeed is paramount. Clubs sack managers at a prolific rate so it's a merry go round of the same names, invariably white bosses so little chance of a minorities figure being appointed.

[mushroom25]

//“The refrain I hear from black coaches is: ‘We’ve got the qualifications but we can’t get the experience,’” said Rabbatts.//

the game is now entirely fiscally driven and club backers demand an instant return on their investment. so no club can afford to give an important post to anyone - regardless of who they are - to someone with no experience, when they can look abroad and get the ready-made experienced person that the club's investors demand.

[agchristie]

It's just the same with young players of whatever colour, just look at the top flight. Hard for them to break into the first team due to big names from home and abroad.

[jim360]

This is about the backroom jobs, though.

[youngmafbog]

But is 4% disproportinate given there is not such an interest in football to the same degree as say white or black.
From the 2011 census 3.3% were black.
and the article is banging on about Managers.
Interestingly the article says 30% are BAME, thus is well out of proportion with the census giving 86% white so perhaps that shoul be adjusted down?

[sp1814]

What youngmafbog means is that 30% of players are from ethnic minorities. This indicates that clubs are colour blind when it comes to players, but for whatever reason, that colour blindness doesn't translate to appointments in managerial roles.

The FA has done sterling work in tackling racism in football, and we should be giving them credit for recognising this apparent anomaly. First to understand a problem, you need to analyze it's cause and where necessary, introduce procedures to level the playing field.

[sp1814]

Actually, just thought - it's entirely possible that there isn't a colour bar when it comes to selecting for backroom positions.

But if equally qualified applicants are being passed over for no reason other than their ethnicity, it would indicate that there is, indeed a problem.