John Barnes

And why did we christen one of his players, who is mixed race, The King of Kings?

 

He said " on the first day i got to Celtic , Kenny Dalglish was the only person who wanted me there," so why did the board authorise his signing ??

 

Guy is all over the place - if the Hierarchy did not want you thee, then you would not have been there, period. We'd have just went with Dalglish if that was the case.
Felt the appointment of a DoF in Dalglish undermined him from the get go - perhaps it did, but he knew that going in to it - and apparently that no one wanted him there, so why take the gig with such negativity?
Claims within the first week he told his wife not to move up - but apparently we also played 6-8 games in this time - which was it John? A week or 8 games?

These "excuses" right away are major alarms as to why he never had the backing of a dressing room and eventually it all fell apart, if you are going in to a job with no commitment from yourself and already mopping around thinking you aren't wanted - while never doing anything to help your own cause, then it's going to end bad.

Claims black managers dont last more than 2 years, because they are black. The *?
Let's remember that the black community within the UK makes up a very small proportion arround 3% at the last census in 2011. For England alone there is 82 clubs in the EFL and EPL - 42 clubs in Scotland (any point counting Welsh and NI in this, no offence?)
124 clubs, at any one time there will be proportionality 3.72 black managers in the league setup. There is currently 3.
So representation wise, there is no issue there.
No manager gets sacked for winning - none!
They do get sacked for failing, and not many managers regardless of their skin colour or nationality get more than 18-24months in a club.
Of the 124 clubs, only 47 have a manager there longer than 2 years.
And of those 47 the only high profile ones are Klopp, Guardiola, Espirito (and gerrard if we want to have a laugh).
Every other manager is at a low league club/small club that can afford the luxury of building a squad and team over time - everyone else is fighting for survival or promotion.

He is completely off the rails with this one and as much as he is trying to say it isn't him claiming it about race, his words are clearly saying it is, for him.

Guys not * right at all.

 

I was going to do a wee piece on his appointment, only because of his recent PR stunt within the confides of the "scumduggery" hacks in Scotland to get a wee bit over Celtic and his disaster at Celtic. A complete novice imbecile and king Kenny Dalgleish should have a finger pointed as a complete cluster-* of an appointment. This is where it started and ended a disaster. Barnes does not deserve our attention * him he's not Celtic never was never is.

 

By the way I hope you're all doing ok friends.Hail Hail!

 

I like John Barnes but the last few days on Twitter he has irritated a lot of people. He is just throwing * at why he failed as a manager rather than put his hands up and say he was out of his depth.

 

And then Danny McGrain came in but he wasn’t wearing any training gear and I said ...........................

 

Why now is he hitting out with all this now after 20 years? I don't know if he's using the whole racism thing as a smokescreen to deflect from his failure with us.

 

If you had been listening to Barnes talking on the radio, you would have heard him saying it

 

Yep, and Mowbray played Broonie at left back against St Mirren. End result, 2 debacles and quite rightly 2 managers given the heave ho.
Still, things improved at Tranmere...

 

I always felt he'd be a good coach but not a good manager. But then his weight ballooned and I just couldn't see him being taken seriously as a coach.

 

@DamianWayneCSC

People from all over the world are involved in the British game, and many top British players (almost half of the England team listed on Wikipedia) are black or multiracial, so there must, presumably, be some impediments to those people forging careers in management.

Barnes himself may have faced racism during his managerial career, but he ultimately failed here because, as a novice, he was ill-equipped to deal with one of the most demanding managerial positions in world football.

 

It always seems to be "black managers" that gets thrown about. No one ever demands more Chinese physios.

 

To really understand if there is a prejudice against bame managers, you would need to have the stats of all manager applications to clubs in the uk and if bame applications were say 3% of the total applications, it would be fair to assume that bame managers would have 3% of the jobs that have been available over that period of time.

Until we have that data it's just guess work and john barnes making excuses for being a * manager

 

Considering the number of black players in England I'm surprised there are not more black managers to be honest. I don't know if not many are going for their coaching badges or just don't get considered. At the moment Hughton seems the only one of note but I don't think he has a club at the moment. There is Alex Dyer at Kilmarnock but I couldn't name another.

 

I’m sure Barnes said this ten year ago aswell because it’s not the first tine I have heard this he’s just piping up again because of recent things happening in the world


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This might all be my fault

He was an online guest speaker for a work football thing 2 weeks ago and was a Q+A bit I asked even though his time up here never went well with it being his first manager job what/if anything at all he took from it and over the years what was he able to learn from Kenny Dal