In order to boost coaching and management diversity in English football, Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has reiterated his call for a version of the Rooney rule to be brought into the sport in England.
The rule states that clubs must interview a BME candidate for each manager job. Dyke also believes that clubs must give black and minority ethnic (BME) players greater opportunities in the boardroom.
Dyke said that clubs would recognise that they can't carry on in the way they've always done and they've got to change, adding that he is not sure one needs the Rooney rule but he believes that one needs a version of it, the BBC reported.
Dyke's comments come after research last year showed that just 19 of 552 leading positions within English football were held by black and ethnic minority coaches. He said that they have got an inclusion group that is looking at that and would come up soon with proposals for change.
Dyke revealed this at an event to celebrate 20 new graduates from the 'On The Board' scheme, which the FA runs in partnership with the Professional Footballers' Association and the Governance Forum.
With fewer than one percent of senior administrator positions within English football occupied by BME executives the course is designed to instruct under-represented groups with the skills to be effective in boardrooms, the report added.
