“I would like to see we should all be judged as equals. Not being able to get back on the merry-go-round so to speak when you do lose your job that’s a bitter pill to swallow. “It’s not nice to lose your job at any level. “We try and deal with it as best as we can do. “Unfortunately, that’s the way it goes,” he said. Contrastingly for Cole, when black coaches fall they fall hard. It means that white coaches continue to land the overwhelming majority of league jobs and find another more easily if they’ve failed. It’s very, very tough.”įor Cole there remains an old boys network in the English management game and none of those old boys are black. Other players who are black and ethnic minority might struggle getting into one of those kinds of roles. I’m fortunate that they’ve been able to do that for me. I’m at Manchester United working in an ambassador role. “I said to myself I think there’s going to be far too many obstacles for me. “I might believe I’ve got too much to offer but can I go through that system that a lot of the guys have been through? I don’t think I can. “People looking at what I achieved in the game might say: ‘why am I not in coaching?’ that I’ve got too much to offer,” he says. Just don’t hold your breath waiting for him to become a coach.Ĭole believes the coaching pathway remains blocked to black and ethnic minority coaches, whatever their calibre as a player, and that the disparity between the number of black and ethnic minority (BAME) coaches going into the system and the number earning jobs with league clubs is clear evidence that they are still being held back. Andrew Cole has decades of insight, knowledge and expertise from a life lived at the highest level of football.
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