League club are considering having a female manager

FOREST GREEN CONSIDERING MALE AND FEMALE OPTIONS

Forest Green are considering male and female candidates for the head coach vacancy at the club and their chairman Dale Vince says it is “entirely feasible” they will make an appointment which sets a precedent in the men’s professional game.

The Gloucestershire club sacked Mark Cooper on Sunday and Vince said they had already had around 70 CVs, with applications coming from men and women.

“Our starting place is to have no prejudices,” Vince told Press Association. “It’s entirely feasible we will appoint a type of coach that has not yet been seen in English football.”



No woman has coached or managed an EFL or Premier League side to date. Emma Hayes, the Chelsea Women head coach, was linked with the vacancy at League One side AFC Wimbledon earlier this year.

When it was put to her that it would be a “step up” to coach in the men’s game, Hayes said: “Women’s football is not a step down from anything.”

Vince agreed with Hayes and said: “Joining us wouldn’t suit everybody, of course. We’ve got no misunderstandings about that.

“At the same time we have had around 70 CVs just yesterday and there’s an awful lot of interest. What we’re seeing in that interest pool is a big range of possibilities and we like that.

“We don’t do things conventionally, we’re not constrained by the way things are always done and we’re quite pleased to be in a position where we can choose with a blank slate approach and say, ‘Let’s find the very best person for the job’. Football is in need of evolution and change.”

Fair play to them - Forest Green are a club who do a lot of things different to others .

If she wears typical office boss attire I’m all for that.