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John Barnes: I'd have lasted longer in the Tranmere job if I was white

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I... that he was..

He tried to get the team playing tippy tappy football.. Which all in all in theory is nice idea.. But it wont get you winning games with average players in league 1...
 
Some interesting points, as usual, with Digger:

Barnes' views on race, and the incidents that have dominated the agenda in recent times – the Luis Suarez and John Terry episodes – are very different to what he calls "the party line". He admits that he will never be offered a role by the Professional Footballers' Association or the "Kick it Out" anti-racism campaign because he does not believe in "zero tolerance, quotas, the Rooney rule and forcing people to give a black man a job and all that kind of rubbish".

Instead of legislation, Barnes asks people to confront what he says is the "unconscious racist" in everyone, including himself. He works in Malaysia, Abu Dhabi and mainly South Africa as a pundit for their Premier League coverage but he also speaks on race at universities. "With Suarez, Terry, Serbia, we treat the symptoms [of racism] but we have to go back to treat the cause of it," he says. "If you can treat the cause then you can get rid of it."
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For his first players' fancy dress Christmas party, he turned up as a Ku Klux Klansman to show racism should be "laughed at".
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He despairs of the storm that blew up recently over Alan Hansen using the outdated word "coloured", and not just because Hansen is a former team-mate. "In the 1970s people were afraid to call me black because they thought it was an insult. They would say 'coloured'. Now it has gone full circle. It's not an issue. The intention is the most important thing."
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His problem is more the notion he would encounter for years as a player – he was told by people, many of whom he says are still in the game, "that we don't see you as black'". "My response now would be, if you don't see me as being black, what do you see me as being? Normal? Is black not normal? And secondly, if you don't see me as being black, what is your impression of what black is? Because I may well speak well and I am OK, that's not the impression of what you have as black?
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737Max said:
Barnes should be employed by the club, he speaks a lot of sense
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I've been saying this for a while.
Imagine him working with our youngsters, imagine what a role model he'd be for someone like Suso or Sterling.
 
Everyone chill the fuck out.

OK, he loves Suarez and hates Terry and is quite pragmatic and he'd be a good lad to have a pint with.

But look what he did to Celtic and Tranmere. He's obviously a football managerial dickwad. I'd rather have Stuart Hall working with our youngsters.
 
At Celtic he was so wildly, inflexibly, evangelical about his 'philosophy' right from the start that it was painfully obvious what was going to happen. At Tranmere the place was such a shambles I doubt anyone - of any colour - at the time would have fared much better. All in all it's an out of character bleat from Barnes.
 
Woland said:
Everyone chill the fuck out.

OK, he loves Suarez and hates Terry and is quite pragmatic and he'd be a good lad to have a pint with.

But look what he did to Celtic and Tranmere. He's obviously a football managerial dickwad. I'd rather have Stuart Hall working with our youngsters.
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Managers don't make a difference
 
Really good ones and really shit ones do.

Barnes allowed Tranmere to start the season with one defender. One.
 
Piedro said:
Thats Bananas
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red_maradona said:
genuine question, and excuse the dullness, but I don't understand your point. can you elaborate?
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I'm echoing his point in the article. Why castigate Hansen for saying 'coloured' when he was almost certainly trying to use what he thought was a more sensitive term? What good does it do? The intention was good. And what difference does it make anyway? Why is 'black' inherently better than 'coloured'? It's just such a load of bullshit.
 
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