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Jon
IP: 90.217.114.92 Jun 29, 08 - 5:41 PM |
Dolbs & the NLP
Today's Non League Paper includes an interview with Chris Dolby. |
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Tarnie
IP: 81.129.1.54 Jun 30th, 2008 - 11:20 PM |
Re: Dolbs & the NLP
Any chance you could post the transcript of the interview on this forum, Jon (should be OK if you name your source)? TIA. |
Deano
 IP: 213.249.145.77 Jul 1st, 2008 - 9:19 AM |
Re: Dolbs & the NLP
Jon doesn't need to type it all out (what little there is on Dolbs). The Non League paper is currently viewable online and it's free. Go to the SFC official site links page, press on the link for the Non League daily paper and take it from there. The entire paper is viewable for free until the season starts. It's hands in pocket time then. 
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Jon
IP: 194.176.105.49 Jul 1st, 2008 - 1:09 PM |
Re: Dolbs & the NLP
I'm even more confused than usual David. The link I'm getting from the official SFC site is taking me to what looks like "Non League Today" The "Non League Paper" interview is quite lengthy and I would knacker my keying finger typing it in. Its interesting stuff though and at least one of the experiences Dolbs had as a player gives you pause for thought. He obviously has great strength of character as, if I'd experienced anything similar, I'd have found something else to do on a Saturday afternoon. I'll ask the NLP if I can quote it in length. 
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Deano
IP: 213.249.145.77 Jul 1st, 2008 - 1:57 PM |
Re: Dolbs & the NLP
And I'm even MORE confused Jon. Are there TWO Non League papers ? The one the link takes you to is the one I see for sale in Tesco. 
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Jon
IP: 194.176.105.49 Jul 1st, 2008 - 2:06 PM |
Re: Dolbs & the NLP
This doesn't feel right David, me telling you something about Non League. The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse must be mounting up. It's not normal to see both on sale at the same outlets but currently there are both the "Non League Paper" and "Non League Today" in competition. The NLP generally is the one on sale in Dronnie, "Non League Today" I tend to get in Sheff 
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Stu
IP: 91.107.200.96 Jul 1st, 2008 - 9:07 PM |
Re: Dolbs & the NLP
The article can be found on http://www.thenonleaguefootballpaper.com/article.asp?aid=4109&iid=81&sud=1153  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ by Dan Schofield Sunday, June 29, 2008 After Ince, The Asians PAUL INCE’S appointment at Blackburn as the first British black manager at a topflight club has broken another barrier – but the challenge now is to integrate the British Asian population into football. I was the first British Asian to play League football, as far as I am aware, when I made my debut for Rotherham in 1991. At the time I did not realise that what I was doing really mattered. My only concern was breaking into the first team – it did not enter my head that I was some sort of standard bearer. As far as I was concerned I was no different to any other teenager trying to get into the first team. Rotherham were my home-team and I was Yorkshire born and bred. I moved to Bradford but I had some bad luck with injuries before I went into Non-League. When I first came on the scene people thought I had broken down a massive barrier and within ten years there would be a proportional amount of Asian footballers throughout the football Pyramid. But there are still just a handful of players – Michael Chopra, Zesh Rehman, Anwar Uddin – playing regular League football. When I was starting out there were very few British Asians in clubs’ academies. Instead they were playing in Asian-only teams and closing themselves off to the wider footballing community. Now a lot of clubs are running community programmes which are addressing that issue, including the one I am working with at Barnsley. More and more Asians are being integrated from an early age and I have no doubt that we will start seeing the fruit of that in years to come. Unofrtunately, the vast majority of kids in academies will not make it – whatever colour they are – so I would expect to see more and more Asian footballers coming down the Pyramid. Certainly, in my new role as Sheffield manager, I would be looking to snap up a lot of kids coming out of academies. Cricket is undoubtedly the top sport for the majority of young Asians and you can see by the success of Ravi Bopara, Owais Shah and Monty Panesar that there is the determination and ability to succeed at the highest level. But football is the national game and, increasingly, you are seeing more Asian kids getting involved. Ten years ago you would not have seen Asians on the terraces and wearing England football shirts but that’s no longer the case. What we need is for someone to really make it in the Premier League. You can see the sort of media attention Amir Khan commands and that would be multiplied ten-fold if an English-born Asian pulled on the three lions. Then there would be a huge knock-on effect in the Asian community. Credit is due to the footballing authorities and for clubs for the initiatives they have launched – but there is a lot of work still to do. Unfortunately, I have come across racism in Non-League. I will not name the club involved but I was playing for Bradford Park Avenue in the UniBond League around 2001. There was a crowd of about 3,000 and the whole section of one stand was chanting about the colour of my skin. I have never been one to confront people so I just try and concentrate on the game and remember I am paid to play football. But part of me wants to jump over the stand and confront these cowards face to face. The club involved were reported and reprimanded by the league. There were another two or three times something like that happened but I am not going to say I have been bombarded by racism in Non-League because that is not the case. It’s only a small minority that cause all the trouble and their number is dwindling. It was noticeable during that game that a lot of people left the stand once the singing started because they were so embarrassed. I am also fully aware my appointment at Sheffield raised a few eyebrows. For a club with the history of Sheffield to make such a symbolic act of appointing an Asian manager will surprise a few people. It shows how brave the club are that they have said Chris Dolby is the best man to do the job regardless of creed, colour or religion. I don’t think I have any extra responsibility. My first duty is to win games for Sheffield. But if I can be successful on the pitch then I can show other clubs appointing an Asian is not a risk. Hopefully this appointment will be felt around the Non-League system and open the way for more Asians to manage at semi-professional and professional level. No-one notices how many black players there are in a team anymore and I hope Paul Ince’s appointment at Blackburn will allow more black players to make the step up to football’s top jobs. The real challenge is to get that same situation with British Asians. |
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