‘Is there still a glass ceiling? Of course’: Kazim-Richards fights for breakthrough at Crawley

Alongside his assistant, Julian Gray, rookie manager talks about the state of play for black coaches and trying to lift his club off the bottom of League Two

Colin Kazim-Richards accepts the scale of the task of improving the situation at Crawley who sit bottom of League Two after seven games. But on the evidence of what he has seen, the head coach is sure better times lie ahead.

On a late summer’s afternoon at Crawley’s training ground in Sussex, Kazim-Richards, alongside his assistant, Julian Gray, the pair arriving in April and managing to save the club from relegation to the National League on the final day, speaks of the challenges ahead and how the team’s league position tells only part of the story.