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The English Football League has made it policy that clubs must interview at least one black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) candidate when searching for a new first-team manager.
The regulation, extending to all first-team vacancies, was introduced at the EFL's annual general meeting on Friday and follows an 18-month pilot.
There are currently just three BAME first-team managers in the EFL.
It hopes the rule will "help address the under-representation" in the game.
"That commitment has now been formalised with the introduction of a new regulation ensuring that the principle of providing more opportunities to BAME candidates is mandatory when clubs consider multiple applicants for a role," said an EFL statement.
The regulation is informally known as the 'Rooney rule', named after the NFL diversity committee chairman Dan Rooney, who spearheaded a policy that clubs in American football should interview at least one BAME candidate for each head coach or senior football operation vacancy.
The EFL said the rule is a "further commitment to improving equality in first-team football".
The sacking of Chris Hughton by Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion means there are just four BAME managers working in the top four divisions of the English game.
Former England captain Sol Campbell - who has been vocal on the issue in past years - was one of just three working in the EFL.
In his first managerial job, he guided Macclesfield to League Two safety after taking over when the club was five points adrift at the bottom.
Wolves' Nuno Espirito Santo, Northampton's Keith Curle and Stevenage's Dino Maamria are the other three BAME bosses in the Premier League and EFL.
Meanwhile Debbie Jevans was appointed executive chair of the league and a regulation outlawing 'spying' was also introduced.
It has been written up following an investigation into Leeds United for watching opponents train before matches, which resulted in a £200,000 fine in February.
Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa admitted sending a member of staff to watch training sessions of United's opponents after Championship rivals Derby County noticed a man 'acting suspiciously' outside their training ground in January.
The new regulation states: "Without prejudice to the requirements of regulation 3.4 (that each club shall behave towards each other club with the utmost good faith), no club shall directly or indirectly observe (or attempt to observe) another club's training session in the period of 72 hours prior to any match scheduled to be played between those respective clubs."
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Your skating on very thin ice with this so called Rooney law , very thin ice .
Do the authorities really believe that in this money orientated sport that a coach who could deliver clubs millions and millions of pounds in revenue would be overlooked because of the colour of his skin ? , really !! .
Does Sol Campbell really believe he couldn't get a top job or even any job coaching was because he's black ?
No it was because he didn't present himself well enough and his ability as a coach was obviously questionable .
Nobody but nobody is overlooked in this game if they have the talent , it's too competitive an industry to be , if players or coaches are rejected its because at that time they didn't have it and if your young enough and hungry enough you will find a way back , if your cr@p you stay cr@p , cr@p would include attitude and a desire to be disciplined and work hard .
What you will have now is a record of applicants for each job in football that becomes available .
If nobody lands one of these jobs as a black person then the pressure will be ramped up to the extent that someone is going to get the job based on colour and not talent because the authorities will expose the numbers who failed .
That's not right .
Hasn't anybody actually thought nobody's been good enough yet , the english game is well stocked with foreign coaches and black footballers , because erm they have talent , nobody says owt about that .
If racism was at work here then it would run all the way through the game , it doesn't .
Nobody's good enough yet , stop loading the dice .
Fecking Bob Marley complete with his Rastafarian and smoking a joint could coach us for me if he's going to win us games of football regularly .
Last edited by animallittle3; 08-06-2019 at 01:16 PM.
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Read abart this yesterday and laughed in all honesty. Where will it all end?
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Av told bloke who runs aar corner shop, a Pakistani gentleman, to apply fo Hull job.
I think this policy discriminates against lesbians, gays, bi***uals, transgenders, the old, straight wimmin, the physically and mentally challenged and those where football is not a strong cultural element. Tha can't just ev positive discrimination for men of colour.
Owain Wyn Evans fo Hull job !
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Problem with this is that the people who do the train8ng for the coaches badges have admitted that the % of BAME doing their badges match the % in a job.
In other words nearly all doing their badges are non BAME.
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It's racism , it's time to geeor wi trying to be politically correct , wiv all lived and worked wi all diffrunt nationalities fo years , even goowin back to scooaldays, it's all ballax , we ed a black manager Vivian Anderson , wa appund wi him ? Got his chance and thankfully took his hook , Widda not got Premiership wi him ? Fact is most aren't good enough , nowt ageeunst em , but this malarkey is absolutely bonkas
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And we ed Jose Morais n all. Reyt job he did
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A reckun wi shud interview that Zaire player who ran arta defensive wall n booited ball away in 1974 world cup
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What abart him who got a game for Southampton under Souness and was only sunday morning standard if that .Originally Posted by pass_and_move
A reckun wi shud interview that Zaire player who ran arta defensive wall n booited ball away in 1974 world cup
Class appointment that would be
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