Maurice Ross insists his acrimonious departure from Notts County after a "racially insensitive" comment would never have stopped him from getting back into management, after his appointment at Cowdenbeath.
The ex-Rangers defender apologised and left the English National League side, where he was assistant manager, after County player Enzio Boldewijn complained about a remark during a match in May this year.
At the time, the 40-year-old described it as a “clumsy, throwaway comment” after making an analogy over the player "moving like a 40-year-old" and asking "does he have a doctored African passport?"
He insisted he was simply making reference to the player, who is usually quick, not looking as mobile on the day, and said he was sorry he had inadvertently made the Dutch winger feel bad.
Six months later, Ross is back in management with the League Two side and he says that's because one isolated incident shouldn't scare off owners who know his real character.
"At the end of the day, people employ you based on what they think of you and what they know of you", he said, speaking exclusively to Football Scotland after being announced as boss of the Blue Brazil.
"I don't think people take too much to do with conjecture, so the person that employs me is going to see me for what I am as a person, what I've done in the past, my habits, what I'm like as a person, how I've been at other clubs I've managed etc.
"So I would hope that it wouldn't have too much of a bearing on it, because it's isolated, it's not something that's been habitual or it's been determined that this is how I am, this is my ideology, its not that at all.
"I've been caught up in this new world that is a very sensitive world. And a world that's moving faster than my education has with the language and what's acceptable and what isn't.
"I've been on courses etc to educate myself, so I'm better prepared now than I was maybe a year ago to understand the language that's accepted."
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Maurice Ross insists his acrimonious departure from Notts County after a "racially insensitive" comment would never have stopped him from getting back into management, after his appointment at Cowdenbeath.