Whenever the topic of black managers comes up, I always think of Chris Hughton. At Newcastle, he did a brilliant job after they went down when they were a mess. Won the Championship at a canter, won nearly half of the Manager of the Month awards. Got them stable in the Premier League and then got sacked, purely because Newcastle's ownership are an absolute shambles, I think.An excellent interview.
The racism he's encountered is shocking and horrendous to see, but he's not wrong about upper management at a lot of clubs. Why does a black manager have to start down the totem pole while someone like Frank Lampard took 2 years to get to manage Chelsea? It's privilege at its finest.
I hope when Danny retires the team brings him back and gives him a shot in coaching if he wants it.
Hughton then had to drop back down into the Championship for his next job at Birmingham, where he got them into the playoffs. Then he gets a move into Norwich in the Premier League. Guides them into midtable in their first season and gets them in a decent position to stay up in his second season, until he got sacked. They never won a game after that and went down.
Then he had to drop back down into the Championship with Brighton. A couple of years later, he gets them automatic promotion and follows it up by keeping them in the league the following season. Season afterwards, he's still kept them out of the bottom 3 but gets sacked all the same.
Hasn't had a job since. Will probably end up back in the Championship, possibly Bournemouth.
Then I think of managers like Moyes, Pardew, Bruce etc who can do average-to-poor jobs at Premier League clubs, get sacked, then quickly get appointed at other Premier League clubs.
Seems like some people have to prove themselves time and time again while others can just walk into jobs.
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