When it comes to the dugout, football is stuck in a time warp, says the ex-Luton stalwart fighting via US courts for greater diversity<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people still believe that if you\u2019re good enough, you\u2019ll get an opportunity. But that is the biggest fallacy out there,\u201d says Ricky Hill as he ruminates on the shameful lack of black coaches and executives across professional football. \u201cThere is a system in place and it refuses to change.\u201d<\/p>\n
We are in Hill\u2019s living room in Bedfordshire, a short drive from Kenilworth Road where he made his name as a sublime and cerebral midfielder for Luton in the 80s. There were international caps too, with Hill becoming the fourth black player to win an England cap and the first of south Asian heritage. But when he decided to go into management in the early 90s, he found baked-in prejudices, an old boys\u2019 network and too many closed doors.<\/p>\n
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