Ollie Holt

[RobbieOR]

Saying now that Terry Connor isnt deemed good enough for Wolves because he's black.

 

Embarrassing.

[fowler9]

absolutely nothing to do with having no experience and getting 1 point from 4 games conceding 14 goals in the process whilst only scoring 2

[Xherdan]

Paste the tweet there Robbie.

[RobbieOR]

He's done a column on it. But here is some of his tweets on it;

 

Just a point of view: don't think black managers get as long to prove themselves as their white counterparts do.

 

Mirror column tomorrow on Terry Connor and why he is being judged more harshly than another new Wolves manager would be

 

Connor being written off and ridiculed after 4 games in charge. Little wonder that would-be black coaches are dissuaded from taking badges

[KevieG]

Somewhere, somehow, this is all Luis' fault.

[Newport]

The club still has a chance of avoiding relegation, but in Holt's mind it's more important to stick with a manager who is unexperienced because he is black.

 

Has he even seen Wolves play lately? Their defending is fucking horrible and their offensive play is even worse. They look completely lost out there and that is what Holt thinks they should stick with? Unbelieveable.

 

And the assumption that Wolves fans are singling their manager out because he is black is a fucking disgrace.

[Kevin D]

[Section_31]

And I can't get a job at the BBC, swings and roundabouts.

[Magic Sponge]

You've got to hand it to him though, he's fucking outstanding at inventing a story.

[Guest TK-421]

I am indebted to Terry Connor for enticing a new snail's trail of morons and trolls to come slipping and sliding out of the compost heap.

 

'So much for the Rooney Rule,' they say, when they talk about Connor. 'So much for black managers, eh? This is what happens when you go down that route.'

 

Well, thank you very much, because this is indeed what happens.

 

This is what happens when you give a black Englishman a job in the Premier League.

 

 

What happens is that he is judged by different, harsher criteria. Subliminally, perhaps. But the effect is the same.

 

This, I think, is the kind of deeper problem John Barnes alluded to recently when he talked about the Luis Suarez affair masking wider issues in our game .

 

The Suarez case may have been complicated in some ways, but it was simple in others - the Liverpool forward racially abused Patrice Evra and he was punished for it.

 

The attitude to Connor is different.

 

It is more deeply embedded. It is subtler, too. And it is an awful lot harder to tackle than one man racially abusing another.

 

The issue here is not whether Mick McCarthy should have been sacked as Wolves boss in the first place.

 

He shouldn't.

 

Nor is there any suggestion that the fans have singled Connor out for criticism more than they did McCarthy.

 

They haven't.

 

But let's put it this way; if another manager had taken over at Wolves, say Alan Curbishley or Steve Bruce, the tone of the wider reaction to recent reverses would have been more understanding.

 

After the run the club has had, Wolves and the Premier League would already be being discussed in the past tense.

 

Because, in case it had slipped your mind, Wolves weren't challenging for the title when Connor took over on February 24.

 

They weren't pressing for a place in the top four. They weren't expecting to qualify for a cherished spot in the Europa League next season.

 

They weren't looking at a top-half finish. And no, there was no possibility of an FA Cup run.

 

Wolves, in fact, had taken seven points from their previous 11 games. They'd just lost 5-1 at home to arch-rivals West Brom and been knocked out of the FA Cup - also at Molineux - by Birmingham, a team from the Championship.

 

They were heading south fast and, in other circumstances, a little latitude would have been extended to their new boss.

 

People would have talked openly of how he should be allowed to start rebuilding for next season.

 

It would have been pointed out that this was a club in free-fall and that it was only reasonable to give the guy time to turn things around.

 

It would also have been stressed that when the club captain turns up unable to train properly after a night out, as Roger Johnson did, maybe the finger should be pointed at the players, not the manager.

 

But that has not happened with Connor.

 

The opposite has happened.

 

Even after his first defeat at Fulham, people were saying he was out of his depth.

 

After two more losses, the most recent a 5-0 trouncing by Manchester United on Sunday, full-scale panic has set in.

 

A new manager is being linked with Wolves almost every day.

 

After more than 12 years at the club, Connor has been written off after a managerial reign that now extends to all of 26 days.

 

The truth is that Connor got the job because, when it came to the crunch, no one else wanted it.

 

They could see how difficult the task ahead was and all calculated that it probably wasn't the best career move.

 

When Connor was offered it, he may have looked around and seen only three other black managers at England's 92 football league clubs.

 

He may have figured that chances like this don't come along very often if you are a black coach in English football and that he had better grab it with both hands.

 

So he did.

 

And now many are deriding him as a fool and an incompetent after four games.

 

Next thing, people will be saying there aren't enough black ex-players taking their coaching badges.

 

I wonder why that is.

[Strontium]

He must have a book about racism in sport in the offing, that's the only way any of it makes sense.

 

I guess he'll just gloss over the bit where he spitefully tried to destroy the career of one of the country's finest female black athletes.

[A_S]

He must have a book about racism in sport in the offing, that's the only way any of it makes sense.

 

I guess he'll just gloss over the bit where he spitefully tried to destroy the career of one of the country's finest female black athletes.

 

Who is that referring to, SD?

 

As for the article guessing how the fans would react to even worse results than the already-shit ones MM was getting, then hinting it must be some subtle racism at work, nothing like trying to deal with real racism instead of stirring shit up for nothing.

[Jose Jones]

Jesus Herbert Christ.

You'd think that as racism is now Holt's pet topic, he actually might show a bit of intelligence and understanding of the issue.

[Strontium]

Who is that referring to, SD?

 

 

Christine Ohuruogu.

[Pdool]

"A new manager is being linked with Wolves almost everyday".

 

 

Yeah by you and your hack cunt mates.

 

 

 

Embarrassing.

[Strontium]

Jesus Herbert Christ.

You'd think that as racism is now Holt's pet topic, he actually might show a bit of intelligence and understanding of the issue.

 

 

Well, he's never shown any intelligence and understanding before.

[Guest TK-421]

Calling someone a "black cunt" mustn't be subliminal enough.

[Jose Jones]

Well, he's never shown any intelligence and understanding before.

 

Perhaps I was expecting a bit of self awareness.

[Guest ShoePiss]

He's a cunt, after hearing the cunt talk with that slight manc accent I really want to hurt the shithouse cunt.

 

cunt.

[Chinandeler Bong]

The issue here is not whether Mick McCarthy should have been sacked as Wolves boss in the first place.

 

He shouldn't.

 

Brilliant. Fuckin Tool.

[Chinandeler Bong]

When Connor was offered it, he may have looked around and seen only three other black managers at England's 92 football league clubs.

 

He may have figured that chances like this don't come along very often if you are a black coach in English football and that he had better grab it with both hands.

 

Or, he may have not been as hung up on his skin colour and other managers' skin colour as you clearly are, and just thought 'this is a great opportunity to enhance my career'.

 

Fuckin Tool.

[Strontium]

So 4 out of 92 managers are now black, which is a little over 4%, or twice as high as the proportion of black people in this country.

 

The man is a grade A moron.

[moof]

Fascinating insight from the Sports Journalist Association's columnist of the year. Yep, this is what we're up against, folks. This fella is deemed the best of the lot. Fuck this country.

[aiyic]

Read the exchange with him and Annie Eaves. Fogging moron. I just feel sorry for Connor because he looks like deer caught in the headlights after every game, but now I feel sorry for him now because Holt thinks he's doing him a favour by highlighting his skin colour. And another thing, did he really have to bring up Suarez again? Fucking snake!

[polymerpunkah]

What's most galling is his attempting to use Barnes' argument about racism to support his position now, when he ignored it completely as the head of the Suarez witch-hunt.

 

What a shameless fucking hack.