There are so many intelligent former black players, guys like Luther Blissett and Cyrille Regis, who never got a chance to become a top manager or a top coach because of the perception that surrounds people who look like them. They are black - which, for many, means they are good athletes but incapable of being anything above and beyond that.

Racism is never personal - it's about someone saying the group I am part of is superior to the group you are part of.

We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.

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