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He never said anything about that, but I think it's safe to assume that he didn't want a job outside the Football League, in which case Sarpsborg are a slightly better prospect than Conference/Regional clubs, their level is probably around League One/Two but of course it's very hard to make a proper comparison like that.
In the case of Ince, he was so high profile throughout his career that there's no doubt he was a bit of an exception to the rule. To me it just seems like hiring any black manager is automatically labelled as a bit of a risky move, but then I think that goes hand in hand with the fact that none have really been given a proper chance at the highest level before, Chrissy at Norwich being the only real exception.
I think it's just considered a risky move to hire any young British manager in general, regardless of race. The only young British managers that seemed to have jumped into fairly high profile jobs with little coaching experience recently are those that spent years working under Ferguson (including Ince) and you can see why chairmen would have taken the risk with them (even though I don't think it's really paid off once yet).