Barnes-"I'm Tranmere Boss".

[Dunny]

John Barnes has told Sky Sports News that he will be named as the new Tranmere Rovers manager on Monday.
Former Celtic boss Barnes emerged as the front-runner for the Prenton Park post at the start of the week when he was replaced as Jamaica chief.
The former England international only spent seven months at the helm of the Reggae Boyz, during which time he was unable to secure World Cup qualification.
But he has now told Sky Sports News that he will be tasked with leading Tranmere's League One campaign in the coming season.
Rovers parted company with Ronnie Moore at the end of last term after he narrowly missed out on a place in the play-offs.
Jason McAteer had also expressed an interest in the vacancy but it now appears that Barnes will be the new man at the helm.
Organisation

The former Watford and Liverpool winger believes that the framework is already in place for success with Tranmere.
Barnes told Sky Sports News: "I'm looking forward to it immensely. Tranmere nearly got to the play-offs last year and I believe they can push on this year.
"I take heart from what Watford did with Graham Taylor. If you look at what Reading have done and if you look at what Burnley have done, you don't need to have the best players and lots of money to be successful.
"If players are committed and have desire and you have the organisation, you just have to encourage them to play and that's what I'll be doing at Tranmere.
"They were one minute away from getting into the play-offs before missing out to the eventual winners Scunthorpe, so all is not wrong at Tranmere at all."

Jamaica

The Jamaica Football Federation has now insisted that they only replaced Barnes with Theodore Whitmore once they learned he was taking over at Tranmere.
A JFF statement explained: "His contract was due to expire on June 30, 2009.
"Barnes secured a contract with Tranmere Rovers in England for the upcoming English football season and advised the JFF of that development last Sunday morning.
"With Barnes securing a job prior to the Gold Cup, the JFF decided in the long-term interest of the game not to offer him a short-term extension, but to appoint Theodore Whitmore as national coach for the remainder of the life of this administration."
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[Dunny]

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[Bayos]

John Barnes - Written by Ash Wednesday of Mail Online

As much as English football welcomed John Barnes back into club management with Tranmere Rovers on Monday, some of his comments have already shaken football supporters from their traditional summer slumber.
Barnes, the former PFA player of the year at Liverpool and one of the finest wingers in the world when he was in his prime at Anfield, claimed he, along with others, are still being overlooked for managerial vacancies because they are black.
'I wouldn't go so far as to say it is racist, but there is a stereotypical view that some people have of black people and black managers in terms of competence,' claimed the former England international.
Rovers return: John Barnes is back with Tranmere
So name names then, John. Get it all out in the open.
Or perhaps, as is most likely, he is still bitter about being fired by then Celtic chief executive Allan MacDonald in February 2000, just days after a humiliating 3-1 Scottish Cup defeat to Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
At the time, MacDonald made it perfectly clear that Barnes had lost the confidence and the backing of the Celtic dressing room to such an extent that the club had little choice but to turn to technical director Kenny Dalglish. More from Ash Wednesday... ASH WEDNESDAY: England beware of Pearce's man-marking job on Capello 09/06/09 ASH WEDNESDAY: Pearce needs to teach England that winning habit 02/06/09 ASH WEDNESDAY: Manchester United boss Fergie has been focused on Liverpool since Kenny was king of the Kop 26/05/09 ASH WEDNESDAY: It's the Arsenal board who have questions to answer 19/05/09 ASH WEDNESDAY: It is high time Arsenal booted out Adebayor 12/05/09 ASH WEDNESDAY: Lack of local heroes has Wor Al's Newcastle drifting away 05/05/09 ASH WEDNESDAY: Wenger's bargains will find it hard to slay big spenders 28/04/09 ASH WEDNESDAY: Smart Alex leads way as bosses tie themselves in knots 21/04/09 VIEW FULL ARCHIVE If anything, people were in the sport had been fully supportive of Barnes' appointment at Parkhead, hoping that one of the game's great players could transfer his beguiling talents into management.
It had nothing to do with the colour of his skin that his seven month spell in Scotland got off to a pretty poor start, telling Celtic's army of supporters when he was appointed that he was in Glasgow to 'cut his managerial teeth'.
Of course Barnes felt hard done by when he as dismissed, in the same way as any manager who has been called into the chairman's office to be told that they are no longer required believe they have not been given enough time.
Barnes' beef is that he has been overlooked for jobs in England since the Celtic experience, passed over in favour of someone who fits a stereotype that he appears to be creating all for himself.
Halfway through his nine-year absence from domestic management, he gave an interview to the BBC where he perpetuated the modern-day myth that black people are patronised by chairmen and chief executives.
According to Barnes, the stereotype of a black man is that he is 'a good athlete, therefore he should be able to run fast, sprint, play rugby, play football, we are athletic, but can we think? That is the hardest barrier to overcome'.
Troubled times: Barnes (right) during his Celtic reign
It has taken Barnes nine years to earn another chance at club level, finally persuading the board at Prenton Park to take him on after an impressive spell as an international manager.
Barnes used Jamaica as a stepping stone, finishing first in the 2008 Caribbean Championships to qualify for the CONCACAF Cup, but his comments have already placed an unnecessary pressure on his return to England with Tranmere.
In the shadows: Barnes
Paul Ince, his successor as captain of Liverpool, trod a familiar path, hinting at racism in the game by claiming that people wanted him out of a job when he was at Blackburn.
The truth is that Ince made a complete hash of it at Ewood Park, jumping from MK Dons too soon and failing to make a fist of it when he became the first black, English manager in the Barclays Premier League.
Much was made of it at the time, heralding a new future for black coaches, but his experience at Ewood Park should not put anyone off a career in management.
It would be an easy excuse for an aspiring black coach to use Ince's failure at Blackburn, or Barnes' at Celtic, to prevent them taking the path to the Premier League.
Instead it can be used as a motivational tool to prove Ince and Barnes that they got it wrong.
They can succeed, irrespective of their colour. They just have to be good enough.

[Gamma]

hahaha.....this man would also argue that before garth crooks, cy regis, chris hughton, that guy from forrest...black\players were not good enough to play pro football?

the englisg are very good at being subtley insidious ..... AND disingenuous. why was john barnes left to languish on the bench in 86? was it that he just was not good enough? when he was appointed captain of england, too little too late, the rumblings that accompanied the fact that a black man was the face of british football?

look at mick mccarthy....does he even have an overall winniong record? yet he keeps getting job after job after job....

pshaw....barnes KNOWS what he experienced.

[Don1]

'I wouldn't go so far as to say it is racist, but there is a stereotypical view that some people have of black people and black managers in terms of competence,' claimed the former England international.

So jut how would he describe racism?