[Albion] Sacking Hughton and racial implications

[Kneon Light]

Don't massively disagree with Naylor's tweet - it is a blow to BAME representation. The other tweets are simply offensive rubbish.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Darren Moore says both his and Chris Hughtons sackings nothing to do with race. Understands the football decisions behind them.

https://talksport.com/football/efl/...-chris-hughton-insists-former-west-brom-boss/

 

[piersa]

It's an absolute nonsense. All three of those quoted by the OP should be ashamed of themselves. I'm genuinely embarrassed for them.

 

[piersa]

I would definitely instructing my lawyers against some of the claims made in the press and social media if I was TB. It's highly indicative of today's society that people can just chuck these claims around without any accountability.

 

[Bob'n'weave]

Have you heard of unconscious bias, look it up its not just football it happens at big firms too. CH should not have got sacked for what he has achieved at a minimum he should have been given ten games at the start of the next season. Chris has been made a scapegoat, the recruiting method is shocking which Chris has little say on. He cracked on with what he was given and met his goals.

You are a bell end. Go away, and stay there.

 

[Bob'n'weave]

Don't massively disagree with Naylor's tweet - it is a blow to BAME representation. The other tweets are simply offensive rubbish.

No it's not. Managers come and go all the time, and it won't be long before CH gets another club. So no, its not a 'blow to BAME representation' because he is still a professional football manager, who is now doing what every other football manager on planet football does when it goes wrong at a club - find another one.

Bringing race into the sacking of CH is sending the wrong message out. If you sack a black manager your club will be labelled racist. Great job for motivating clubs to take on BAME managers, way to go.

 

[OzMike]

What a joke, so he should have had a job for life eh, regardsless of his performance.
It's a bit like electing to have more women CEO's at companies just because there are not many, regardsless if there is someone else better equiped to do the job, sits back.........

 

[rippleman]

Don't massively disagree with Naylor's tweet - it is a blow to BAME representation. The other tweets are simply offensive rubbish.

Andy Naylor in lazy, populist journalism shocker. Would love to see the club ban him for that nonsense.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

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[Icy Gull]

Andy Naylor in lazy, populist journalism shocker. Would love to see the club ban him for that nonsense.

I think he sees CH as a bit of a mate so no surprise the non Albion supporting journalist appears not to be too happy about the sacking

 

[jameswestport]

It did cross my mind...

Obviously not true though.

Has Chris spoken to the press yet?

 

[Springal]

Kick It Out have unreservedly apologised to Brighton & Hove Albion FC, its chairman Tony Bloom, and the club’s board of directors and staff for any inference in comments made in an interview in the Daily Telegraph by Troy Townsend, the organisation's head of development, that the club’s dismissal of Chris Hughton as its first-team manager on Monday was in any way linked to his ethnicity and also for the impact the comments have had on the club’s reputation and the reputation of its senior officials.

Kick It Out and Troy Townsend fully accept that through its current employment of BAME coaches at senior levels, and the club’s long term engagement with and support for Kick It Out’s various campaigns and events, Brighton & Hove Albion FC has fully demonstrated its commitment to eradicating discrimination of all types, and to consistently providing opportunities for BAME coaches. Nobody at Kick It Out will make any further comment on this matter.
Brighton & Hove Albion do not wish to comment further on this issue.

 

[Icy Gull]

Kick It Out have unreservedly apologised to Brighton & Hove Albion FC, its chairman Tony Bloom, and the club’s board of directors and staff for any inference in comments made in an interview in the Daily Telegraph by Troy Townsend, the organisation's head of development, that the club’s dismissal of Chris Hughton as its first-team manager on Monday was in any way linked to his ethnicity and also for the impact the comments have had on the club’s reputation and the reputation of its senior officials.

Kick It Out and Troy Townsend fully accept that through its current employment of BAME coaches at senior levels, and the club’s long term engagement with and support for Kick It Out’s various campaigns and events, Brighton & Hove Albion FC has fully demonstrated its commitment to eradicating discrimination of all types, and to consistently providing opportunities for BAME coaches. Nobody at Kick It Out will make any further comment on this matter.
Brighton & Hove Albion do not wish to comment further on this issue.

I wonder if it took a legal threat....

 

[Springal]

I wonder if it took a legal threat....

No doubt

 

[Dorset Seagull]

I wonder if it took a legal threat....

My first thought as well and I concluded yes

 

[BDP1884]

It's ridiculous. He was black when you hired him.

 

[Tooting Gull]

That has gone very, very close to a full-blown defamation action by the looks of it. The club have nailed it in that release over their long term commitment to Kick It Out's goals and programmes. Fair play, you can't just go out and falsely damage people's reputation in such a public way and get away with it. The wrong link was made. If he'd just said 'It is very sad to see our figurehead lose his job', he'd have been fine.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Kick It Out have unreservedly apologised to Brighton & Hove Albion FC, its chairman Tony Bloom, and the club’s board of directors and staff for any inference in comments made in an interview in the Daily Telegraph by Troy Townsend, the organisation's head of development, that the club’s dismissal of Chris Hughton as its first-team manager on Monday was in any way linked to his ethnicity and also for the impact the comments have had on the club’s reputation and the reputation of its senior officials.

Kick It Out and Troy Townsend fully accept that through its current employment of BAME coaches at senior levels, and the club’s long term engagement with and support for Kick It Out’s various campaigns and events, Brighton & Hove Albion FC has fully demonstrated its commitment to eradicating discrimination of all types, and to consistently providing opportunities for BAME coaches. Nobody at Kick It Out will make any further comment on this matter.
Brighton & Hove Albion do not wish to comment further on this issue.

lawyered

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Would be nice to see something similar from that plank Darren Lewis.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

lawyered

Barbered. Those long emails would wear anyone down - "yes, whatever, you write the Press Release Paul"