John Barnes has claimed he is struggling to get back into management, because he is a black man.
The former Celtic and Jamaica boss, has not gotten any coaching gig since 2009, when he spent just four months at Prenton Park.
He is also not optimistic that he will get any opportunity anytime soon.
“A white manager loses his job and gets another job, he loses his job, he gets another job. Very few black managers can lose their job and get another job,” he told ITV’s ‘John Barnes: Sports Life Stories’, which airs on Tuesday.
“What I can judge it from is by looking at society. How many black people are there in the higher echelons of any industry? We can talk about journalism, we can talk about politics so why should football be any different?”
Barnes was also asked if the Celtic job came too soon for him in 1999. He replied: “Well, if it comes now at 51, I don’t think it will be any different.
“It’s more to do with the perception of my ability to do the job because there’s a certain perception of who can make a good manager.”
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