That was 30 years ago too - youd hope things have improved.The reception would have different if he wasn't Gullit though.
If he was African instead of Dutch.
Or a mid level player instead of an absolute baller.
Or hadn't shown he has an edge - with his skill and his spitting.
He was a harder target than someone like, say, Rosenior.
Also, in the eyes of the ignorant, he wasn't "black" unless they needed him to be. Lighter skin tone.
That was 30 years ago too - youd hope things have improved.
Hayes is also arguably the best manager in the game (maybe europe, the us is perhaps ahead). So we'd hardly be appointing a nobody
You have been spitting your dummy out at the prospect of a manager from in your view a lesser league but yet leading people to believe the sport and our fans would be ready for a female manager. I would love us to be the team that break boundaries but based on the general level of entitlement and bed wetting from fans I just would not trust us or the wider sport with that honour. As sad as that sounds
Why?, not saying we should hire her but should consider her. No idea how a female coach would go down but it's only a matter of time.
it and we bloody well should be
The highest level a woman manager is in the man’s game is Step 7 of non league football, yet some of you think we should be employing Hayes? Surely a job a bit further down the league system to 9th best team in England (at worst) would be sensible? Basically positive discrimination if she were to get our gig.
First and only time it will happen will be when some attention seeking chairman wants to make a splash, it'll go terribly and no one will ever do it again
The highest level a woman manager is in the man’s game is Step 7 of non league football, yet some of you think we should be employing Hayes? Surely a job a bit further down the league system to 9th best team in England (at worst) would be sensible? Basically positive discrimination if she were to get our gig.
There is no logical reason why biological sex is relevant to competency in a management position.
There is no logical reason why biological sex is relevant to competency in a management position.
Agreed, but the standard of womens football is so poor there's absoloutely no reason to even think about appointing a person whose only experience is at that level. Might as well appoint a successful non league or youth team manager.
No problem with appointing a female manager but to do so.they'd need as much relevant experience in the mens game as any male candidate would.
We wouldn't be the first. IIRC Clermont in France appointed a female manager.He was not the first black manager though and he also had a HUGE profile within the mens game to a point that no one blinked an eyelid.
Its not really the same as being the first male team in football to appoint a woman manager, football would have a field day as would our own fans based on recent uproars unfortunately.
It will happen and I would love us to be the ones to break the barrier, I just don't trust the industry to have the same sentiments and support for it to work, Include fans and our own in that sadly
Exactly, it really shouldn’t need spelling out.Agreed, but the standard of womens football is so poor there's absoloutely no reason to even think about appointing a person whose only experience is at that level. Might as well appoint a successful non league or youth team manager.
No problem with appointing a female manager but to do so.they'd need as much relevant experience in the mens game as any male candidate would.
We wouldn't be the first. IIRC Clermont in France appointed a female manager.
But in the womens game the calibre of the players isn’t deveined by the manager or coach . It’s purely the maturity of the gameAppointing a woman coach is absolutely not an issue today, or it shouldn't be. We have women chairmen in this league, who sign the players' cheques - half our board are women, although they seem to be as spectacularly incompetent as Deadweight Dan himself. Any player who's happy being paid by a woman but not coached by one has a screw loose.
The issue, as @billyiddo and others have pointed out, is that women's football is roughly Conference League level at this stage in time. Just the way it is, because of the relatively late blossoming of the women's game and the yawning gap in quality as a result. So, would you be happy appointing a Conference League manager?