Sterling Question The Lack Of Black Managers In The Top Flight And Frank Lampard's Reply

                             

                              Raheem Sterling, England and Manchester City player

Manchester City and England footballer has questioned how Frank Lampard could be appointed Chelsea manager and Steven Gerrard Rangers manager while black for senior England players like Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole are Yet to break through at the top level. Lampard has this to say :

                                

"What Raheem Sterling has spoken about in the last year or two, he has been brave enough to speak about issues that maybe hadn’t been broached and should have been broached a while before; he deserves huge credit for that,’ said Lampard.

               

‘I think you could say the same for a real spectrum of Premier League players: Marcus Rashford recently, Jordan Henderson, Troy Deeney, Mark Noble. ‘I don’t want to leave too many out, but I think they are making a great impression of themselves in what they are saying. ‘I think in the actual case of managers, I think he got it, from my point of view, slightly wrong, because it felt like a very casual comparison. ‘Because if you compare opportunities and pathways of individual managers, you can compare myself, you can compare Steven, you can compare Sol, who by the way did an incredible job at Macclesfield and the job now at Southend is tough, it’s one all of us would find difficult to do. ‘Then you can compare Ashley Cole who finished his career last year with me at Derby, and is working away here (as Chelsea academy coach) with me and doing a great job, and I think he’s going to be successful whatever he wants to do. So I think it’s very hard to make that comparison from the outside.’

Nuno Espirito Santo is the only BAME/Black manager in the top flight in United Kingdom.

              

                       Nuno Espirito Santo, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Coach