Why English Football Will Adopt the NFL’s Rooney Rule
Early last month, senior executives from the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), the League Managers' Association, the Football Association (FA), the Football League and the Premier League met with Cyrus Mehri, an American lawyer who, along with the late Johnnie Cochran and a labor economist, Janice Madden, drafted and successfully petitioned the National Football League (NFL) to adopt the "Rooney Rule," the requirement that NFL teams interview at least one minority candidate for any head-coaching vacancy.
Soccer Politics Blog @ Oct 11, 2011 7:57 AM EDT | Blog Profile
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