What matters is what the kids and their parents and the kids and parents of future intakes feel about it. Do they want this fella to teach them or not? If the answer is not then West Ham has a major problem and the bloke's position is untenable. It is as simple as that.
It shouldn't have anything to do with what other people deem as appropriate free speech or not. Unfortunately, this case is being used for just that, no one is even talking about the kids and their parents, as always it's now all become what "you" think is right and wrong, what he can and can't say and how ridiculous the world has become and how it offends "you". Not once have you made any reference about the kids or their parents in this, it's all been about how you feel. What have you got to do with anything? Stop making it about you and what you feel. It should be about the kids he coaches and the impact his beliefs have on their development (whether they feel comfortable, safe, intimidated, threatened etc). The judges of this are the parents, and as I've said if they chose not to have their kids coached by him then West Ham have a massive problem, this and only this should be what matters.
Work backwards from the kids put them first and it really isn't a complicated issue at all.
That's a solid argument ... free speech is so important to so many off us that it indeed sometimes gets in the way of a single issue ...
Has anyone referenced what the kids or their parents think? All we know is that parents and kids have been coached by him for four years with no previous evidence so far coming out of racism or bias .... If those same kids and parents now feel that his position is untenable that's fair enough ...
So what I understand you to be saying is he should be left alone and that the parents and kids should make the decision ... interesting call ... you might find it leaves West Ham open to all sorts of litigation for dereliction of duty as an employer, but fuck them, let's see what the kids and parents have to say ...
Just a point you might want to consider, if you got rid of every teacher and coach who's opinions kids and parents didn't agree with, you'd have very few left ...