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Sol Campbell exclusive: Don’t write me off but black managers face an uphill battle

Sol Campbell reckons black managers are ‘swimming upstream’ in football these days – but believes he deserves the chance to help stem the tide.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
14 December 2025

Sol Campbell hasn’t managed since leaving Southend United in June 2020

By Matthew Nash

Sol Campbell reckons black managers are ‘swimming upstream’ in football these days – but believes he deserves the chance to help stem the tide.
The former Spurs, Arsenal and England defender has been a prominent voice highlighting the lack of black managers in English football, describing it as a “sad indictment” on the game.
Campbell attributes the difficulties black coaches face getting opportunities to systemic bias and archaic attitudes, despite his own significant playing career, contrasting their plight with that of less experienced white managers.
He himself had spel...

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