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Iffy Onuora worries little may change for black managers in 10 years' time

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FA chairman Greg Clarke has described the representation of black people in senior leadership roles in football as "pitiful".

The same conversations about the lack of black people in leadership positions in football are likely to still be happening in 10 years' time, despite the Black Lives Matter movement placing increased focus on the issue.

Iffy Onuora, the former Huddersfield and Gillingham forward who now works as an equalities officer for the Professional Footballers' Association, says he recalls similar optimism that change was imminent during a meeting he attended in London 17 years ago.

Manchester City and England forward Raheem Sterling has been one of those questioning why the large proportion of players from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds has not translated into a similar proportion among coaches, administrators and chief executives.

"English managers traditionally cut their teeth in the EFL, so that's important. We're all interlinked by this and that's why we say, 'let's make this a whole game issue, and a whole game conversation'. '

"They (the EFL) have the right of course to keep that within themselves, as does any other organisation, but I think we're asking people to step outside the confines of their own organisation and see the picture at a little bit broader than that and see the possibilities of that.

"There shouldn't be any fear, we're just trying to be part of the solution."

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