White men have been blocked from applying for coaching jobs at Premier League football clubs including Manchester United and Liverpool under a policy that appears to be a direct contravention of equality law. The Telegraph has more.
A potential legal error by the world’s richest league has led to a number of teams – including Manchester United and Liverpool – recruiting for coaching roles open “only” to ethnic minorities and women.
Telegraph Sport has found current or recent online job adverts that risk falling foul of the Equality Act despite being part of a centrally-funded drive to combat a lack of diversity off the pitch in English football.
An expired ad for a 23-month youth coaching role with United that ends next month said: “Coaches who are currently under-represented within the English professional game – individuals from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds, including women from all backgrounds. This is a positive action scheme aimed at addressing under-represented groups in football coaching. Applications will only be accepted from individuals from those backgrounds.”
Another for a similar job at Liverpool said: “We will only consider coaches who are currently under-represented within the English professional game – individuals from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds, including women from all backgrounds.”
Wording of that nature has also appeared in adverts for equivalent roles at Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa, Everton, Newcastle United, West Ham United, Leicester City, Brighton & Hove Albion and Bournemouth, as well as former Premier League teams Leeds United and Norwich City.
Several of the clubs involved have told Telegraph Sport the ads were created using a template supplied by the Premier League, one they said had been updated and no longer explicitly prohibited white men from applying.
Ipswich Town and Fulham have both been running the latest version but have still faced accusations of “disgusting anti-white racism” from Rupert Lowe, the Independent MP for Great Yarmouth and former Southampton chairman.
Ipswich subsequently removed the ad, with sources telling Telegraph Sport they did so after determining it had been poorly worded. Liverpool are expected to run a similar ad imminently.
Telegraph Sport has been told the various advert templates were provided by the Premier League as part of what is known as the Coach Inclusion and Diversity Scheme (CIDS). …
Banning white men from applying for a job would appear to contravene “guidance on discriminatory adverts” published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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Another good reason to switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead- like playing football.
Or go to your local club where at my Tier 9 level you can watch for £8 leaving you enough change from a tenner for a cup of tea.
Yes from what some of
my colleagues say about watching Southend the atmosphere is a lot better
Yet all the top teams are full of highly-paid talent of various demographic origins.
Meritocratic rigour on the pitch, pandering to DIE off the pitch. No Room for Racism in the Premier League…
https://www.premierleague.com/footballandcommunity/noroomforracism
…As long as it’s bad racism, not good racism directed at those evil White Males.
Another captured institution acting out a parody of itself.
Non white people over represented on the pitch – meritocratic. White people over represented in management and coaching – racism.
Rest assured, the ads might be rewritten in order to satisfy the law but the hiring practices will remain firmly in line with DIE requirements.
It would be interesting if tabs could be kept on the types of people actually recruited. I doubt the honkies will figure.
I love sport (these days more doing it than watching it) but I can barely watch elite professional sport of any kind these days – I find it unbearably woke and irritating. A WTA player’s coach has been banned from coaching her because some commentators reckon he is horrid to her, and the tennis authorities agreed. The player herself, a grown adult, says she has no problem with the coach (she could simply fire him if she did).
I agree tof. I watch hardly any sport now. A few days ago I stumbled across some Women’s rugby (Union) and I must admit it was watchable in a time-passing way; the hi-lights obviously. I’m not criticising, just making an observation.
The recent US Masters wasn’t bad from the Iittle I saw.
My favourite TV sport nowadays – Darts. Absolutely love it. Pure entertainment and so far not touched by wokery. Some tournaments still have dancing totties. How’s that for memories?
I always thought pro cyclists were real tough guys then the cycling world went full on Covid crazy.
How about – and stick with me on this, it’ll make sense – hiring the best coach for the job…?
I know, it’s maybe a bit wild, but got to be worth a shot, no…?
Too radical by half. Remember the RAF didn’t want ‘useless white men’ to apply to be pilots; so there no point looking there. (Unfortunately that didn’t work out well, as they are now begging the UWM to reapply!
).
That you believe there is a best man for the job marks you as white racist because all people are equal. The only reason you claim they aren’t is that you want get away with claiming that all black people are inferior to all white people to conserve your unearned white privilege.
This is not a parody but is – at least – generally, how this argument really goes, insofar that’s known to me.
The irony is that football is a results driven sport and especially for the coaches and managers.
The satisfaction of seeing a black, racist biatch humiliated and arrested for her disgusting and entitled behaviour ( she threw food over this guy’s wife but that part wasn’t caught on camera ) can never be underestimated. And yes, she should lose her job;
”A black racist woman recently sparked controversy after she confronted a white woman, declaring that “white women are inferior” and then throws her lunch at her.
This incident has led to significant backlash, with the woman’s employer (@OasisServOffice
) inundated with over 200 phone calls and 500 emails from concerned citizens expressing their outrage.
Should this woman be dismissed from work?”
https://x.com/TheBritLad/status/1915808311766589795
The first part has been accomplished – Detain.
Now for part two – Deport.
Anywhere south of the equator will do.
What’s the bet that the people behind such policies are white men. I suppose they are protecting themselves by creating “diversity below them. But never above
You never hear calls for more diversity in the billionaire class.
Steve Sailer used to joke about the NAABP – National Association for the Advancement of Billionaire People. A play on the NAACP. Probably most billionaires operate according to Divide and Conquer.
Here is the full list of directors of Liverpool FC.
John Henry, Michael Egan, Tom Werner, Billy Hogan, Mike Gordon, Kenny Dalglish, Andy Hughes.
Every single one of them a white man.
Not that I have any issue with all of them being a white man. I couldn’t care less.
But obviously they are a bunch of hypocrite tossers if they racially discriminate when hiring for the lower ranks, to create more diversity.
Honestly these people deserve a proper slap across the face for their shameless contempt for all of us. They must think we are complete f***ing idiots.
Well, a lot of people do seem like idiots to me. But then so was I. Probably a lot of people think I still am.
Exactly. So when you’re moaning about the inclusion of female commentators, referees etc ruining your viewing experience you know who to blame.
Here is the full list of directors of Manchester United.
Joel Glazer, Kevin Glazer, Bryan Glazer, Darcie Glazer, Edward Glazer, Omar Berrada, John Reece, Rob Nevin, Robert Leitao, John Hooks.
Every single one of them a white man…. except Darcie Glazer (a white woman).
Again, I don’t give a shit they’re white. I’m not the one who believes in racial discrimination when hiring to create more “diversity”.
But these assholes apparently do. For the lower ranks. Not in the board. Racial discrimination for thee but not for me.
Honestly it’s an outrage and the DS should do a piece on the disgusting hypocrisy of these people.
I hope the mods pick up on your last suggestion and pass it to the editorial team.
In this regard I consider the directors of those clubs to be my main enemies. I do not believe they wish me and my family well. The feeling is mutual.
Professional football isn’t about sport but about advertising and if such policies are enacted, then, because the advertisers/ sponsors want that. The directors of the club likely have absolutely no opinion on the topic — they’d dress their players in brownshirts and swastiksas if someone was willing to pay for that.
To defeat racism, we must become racism.
Most white men are happy cucks these days and would probably gladly take subservient roles within any progressive organiston. And then they would boast to their mates on social media about how they love having a black transgender (male to female) lesbian as a boss.
Palace v Villa. An all African semi final.
Yes, what’s the point of watching it? It’s a nauseating spectacle, a total betrayal of the Englishmen who should be playing for and coaching those English teams.
Our starting eleven on Saturday had just 3 white players and only 3 more on the bench. I was surprised when a fellow committee member pointed this out as it had not crossed my mind and I think was seriously suggesting it was good for diversity. What it really said though is that none of our players actually come from our village which is 99% white. At Tier 9 level the majority of players are found by the manager and ours comes from South London. Same applies up the road from us and you will be able to watch them in the FA Vase final a week on Sunday.
May I just ask them: “WHO INVENTED FOOTBALL?”
And nearly every other major sport on the planet, including ice hockey?
THE ENGLISH.
Except for golf & hurling (Scots), skiing (Finns), ice skating (Dutch).
All invented by the much-maligned WHITE MAN.
I suggest the predominantly white working class men who buy tickets and merchandise to support these racist, anti-white, clubs, stop doing it.
How could such a template get produced without getting legal advice. Changing the advert is too late, the crime has been committed and the publishers should be prosecuted for racism, which is what it is.
It is not just insulting and racist to white males. The policy degrades all the people who are presumed, by the advertisers, to be so inept they need to benefit from an illegal act of racism to stand a chance of getting a job.
But we do at least know why the authors of this job advert template think in the way that they do, that is because clearly they are a bunch of unabashed racists.
Regarding ethnic identity in sport, after reading about today’s London Marathon, I wondered why Ethnic Africans from Ethiopia and Kenya have won all the men’s races since 2003, and all the women’s races since 2010 (one winner claiming to be “Dutch” in 2023 was Ethiopian).
It turns out that it is not their African Ethnicity, but ALTITUDE TRAINING that is the main factor in their success at long-distance running in competitions worldwide, including against other African nations. For example, “A popular annual marathon in Lagos, Nigeria — the Access Bank Marathon — has never been won by a Nigerian.” [but rather by Ethiopians & Kenyans]
What Makes East Africans So Good at Distance Running?
“At higher altitudes, air is thin and oxygen scarce. The human body adapts by producing more red blood cells to capture and deliver the limited oxygen available. Lung capacity and efficiency increases.”
So when they come down to sea level to compete in the London Marathon, or the Boston Marathon, or the Lagos Marathon, for example, they have a huge advantage.
Then there is the fact that “Kenyans and Ethiopians often run miles to school barefoot, an action Lieberman believes gives them a special edge. Ethiopian Abebe Bikila even won the 1960 Olympic marathon running barefoot.”