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Bad news for the football league’s diversity officer. QPR have sacked Chris Ramsey, the same day Huddersfield give the boot to Chris Hughton.

Presumably, there will be the usual outcry about not enough Chris’ in management. But at least QPR have gone for a young, fresh replacement. Even if he isnt Chris.

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I assume you mean Chris Powell has been sacked at Huddersfield.

Good spot. Sorry!

Some of my best friends are Chris.

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And that Colin W = Neil Warnock!

As soon as a club brings in someone to ‘help’, you might as well pack your bag.

Hopefully he’ll go on a Redknapp-style spending spree in January to cement their midtable position.

Have they paid their last fine yet?

Originally posted by @Lets-B-Drinking

Bad news for the football league’s diversity officer. QPR have sacked Chris Ramsey, the same day Huddersfield give the boot to Chris Hughton.

Presumably, there will be the usual outcry about not enough Chris’ in management. But at least QPR have gone for a young, fresh replacement. Even if he isnt Chris.

Well, huge surprise, this from Kick It Out guy Troy Townsend, father of Andros:

"People will look and think ‘Is it worth it? Is it because of the colour of their skin? Or is it because they are bad managers?’

Imagine the reaction if anyone suggested a manager only got their job in the first place because they are black.

Not sure why anyone would shoehorn race into this situation, it’s about the league table.

Appointments could be questioned, but not sackings - every manager is judged on results.

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Seems odd to suggest that a manager might be sacked for the clour of his skin. How would he have got the job in the first place if there was prejudice in place? Given the % of black players in the game though, you would think that more would become managers and coaches at the end of their careers. There are an awful lot of white managers around, and given the amount who get sacked each season, not very good ones at that!

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If Brighton don’t start winning soon, then Hughton will be next.

Also don’t forget that Kamara only got 3 months before he was sacked by Stoke and Fairclough and Bart-Williams have been constantly overlooked.

There is definitely prejudice against Chris.

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Yes, SOG, it reminds me of the time David Mellor was suggesting on 606 that Chris Kamara’s sacking from the manager’s position at Bradford City might be racially driven, only for the then Bradford chairman Geoffrey Richmond to call in and remind Mellor that it was him (Richmond) who’d given Kamara the job in the first place!

And it was Les Ferdinand, a DofF at that (how many BMS’s are DofFs), who “sacked” Chris Ramsey

Huddersfield said that the dismissal of Powell “signals a change of direction by the club and a new approach”, while QPR director of football Les Ferdinand said that replacing Ramsey was in the “best interests of the club”.

And this from Frank Sinclair

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