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While I find the whole thing a disgrace in connection with our club. He's had to backtrack a lot on his initial intent after it garnered such a negative reaction. He's spun it as a prompt to debate unconscious racial bias which is a good thing (in general). Hopefully the club have been in touch because that was clearly not his original intent.
Now he (and his station) should be totally ignored. I can't think of a better description of this repulsive guy than the Guardian quote which appears in his Wikipedia page..."expert phone-in troll, arrogantly spouting inflammatory football opinions in the hope of prompting some indignant phone rage from an uppity fan."
Without wishing to stoke the fires on this debate there are a few points I think need to be made.If the two key protagonists in this debate namely Adrian Durham and Olly Holt have a valid point it is this that BAME coaches are generally under represented in the ranks of the professional game. However adopting the hiring and firing of Darren Moore as a cause célèbre demonstrates a certain amount of wonky thinking on their part. By way of background before Darren Moore was appointed I got into a bit of a twitter debate with Olly Holt (Chief Sportswriter on the Mail on Sunday). His basic premise was that not hiring Darren would be "racist" I argued regardless of his race Moore was too inexperienced for our role at this point in his career a certain amount of back and forth followed. I suggested that if Olly wanted to find racism he might want to have a look at the front end of his own newspaper. My view might have been vindicated although I don't agree with the dismissal to then level a charge of racism at the club even at the subconscious level does not follow any logic. Yet we circle back to the fact that BAME coaches are under represented in the professional game. Rather than take aim at an individual decision the bigger issue in all probability is the utterly ramshackle hiring and firing processes that bedevil football and probably have a far greater impact than any subconscious bias. However this is difficult and in beyond a the glib headline grabbing rant. Equally much of he stock tabloid output revolves round the hiring and firing coaches where would be without the countless phone in debates on Talksport or the acres of print about whether coach x or y has "lost the dressing room" after 3 defeats. Olly and Adrian are part of the problem if they want to take a swipe at football's hiring and firing practices I would be happy to engage in a debate.