Pitch Black (2015)
“This would have been a relatively unremarkable event in a season that had seen a number of high-profile sackings in an increasingly impatient club management culture. Hughton’s side had been languishing near the bottom of the Premier League for most of the season and the sacking was a last-ditch and ultimately futile attempt by the board to keep Norwich in the top flight. However, what was distinguishable about the event was it now meant that there was not a single black manager in any of the f...our divisions within English football.
At the start of the 2013/14 season, a decision on the proposal for an English version of the ‘Rooney Rule’ had been quietly dropped from the debate amongst the seventy-two Football League chairmen, without resolving the issues behind the under-representation of black coaches and managers that had led to the promotion of the rule. The Rooney Rule was named after Dan Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the US National Football League.MoreLess
At the start of the 2013/14 season, a decision on the proposal for an English version of the ‘Rooney Rule’ had been quietly dropped from the debate amongst the seventy-two Football League chairmen, without resolving the issues behind the under-representation of black coaches and managers that had led to the promotion of the rule. The Rooney Rule was named after Dan Rooney, the owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the US National Football League.MoreLess
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