At last a black football manager has been awarded Manager of the Month in the Premier League. Congratulations.
Chris Hughton, once a Spurs player, has won the award after a successful February with Brighton and Hove Albion. At 59 years old he brought the Albion up from second place in the Championship to the PL last season. The Seagulls are holding their own so far.
Chris has been a PL manager for 121 games (today) with Newcastle, Norwich and with Brighton consecutively and his team is comfortably placed in the division and is awaiting a FA Cup quarter-final tie with Manchester United, having been unbeaten in 7 games this month.
There is a handful of names of black managers in the PL with Ruud Gullit the first as he took over from Glen Hoddle at Chelsea in 1996. Gullit was successful but was sacked after a year and then at Newcastle he led them to the FA Cup Final, although again his stay was short lived.
Frenchman Jean Tigana won promotion with Fulham after 3 years from 2000 and led them to the UEFA Cup. Paul Ince was the first English black manager at Blackburn for 17 games and several others, Terry Connor and Chris Ramsey failed at Wolves and QPR. Opportunities are limited from Black, Asian, Minority and Ethnic managers.
Other MANE managers, past and present, include Keith Curle at Carlisle, Jimmy F Hasselbaink at Northampton, Fabio Liverani, once at Leyton Orient, Ricardo Moniz (once at Notts County), Nuno Espirito Santo (Wolves), Jack Lester (Chesterfield), Keith Alexander, deceased (once at Macclesfield and others), Chris Kamara (last at Stoke 1998) would you believe it? Chris Powell (Southend).
We hope that the Rooney Rule makes a difference although many BAME footballers do not want to be subjected to being appointed to fulfil a "quota".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney_Rule
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