Comments on: Special Management theory

By: soccernista.com » “With the Seven, Seven-eleven, Seven-ele…”

Fri, 25 May 2007 23:22:47 +0000

[...] every manager’s plea dujour: “Let me spend more.”Â I’ve touched on this managing scourge before, and it’s nice to see The Guardian weigh in onÂ the matterÂ as well.Â I hope the [...]

By: soccernista.com » Newserseses

soccernista.com » Newserseses — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:22:14 +0000

[...] Mourinho can cry me a river. Mourinho complaining about lack of funds?? Fortunately, the G man has already covered this so I don’t need to make any snide remarks about the atrophy of M’s coaching [...]

By: jobicoppola

jobicoppola — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:44:39 +0000

Just to clarify, I was talking about Calderon, not the video…no complaints about that from me. Part of the game.

By: Dawson

Dawson — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:37:33 +0000

That’s yelling? Obviously, I have more to learn about the beautiful game, because I did more yelling as a high school (American) football coach in warmups.

I did, however, save the F bombs for my halftime adjustments, too.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:35:11 +0000

Quoting Graham Taylor?

Really?

By: garth

garth — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:33:02 +0000

For that kind of money, I’d let Sitton take a hammer to my balls.

I agree with you guys to a point, but it bears reminding: Sir Alex eventually hit Becks in the face with a shoe…so I imagine there was a pretty severe amount of bollocking that preceded that. Not to mention the fact that dressing room had Roy Keane in it.

By: LG

LG — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:58:32 +0000

Agreed, brilliant video man. Fantastic talk…”fuck the lot of you”, I love it.

Have to agree with Ian though, tough speech to give when you’re talking to 30 mil, 25 mil, 15 mil…and the list goes on. Even if you gave the speech, would they really listen…I think not!

By: jobicoppola

jobicoppola — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:08:13 +0000

Calderon was ripping Bex a new one today...I don't really get what the point of trashing your players like that is. Pretty low-class if you ask me. Does anyone take the high road anymore, ever? Anyone? LT?

By: ian

ian — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:53:42 +0000

That was fucking spectacular.

Seriously though, no way that guys making $100,000 a week would put up with that shit, which is why the manager is usually expendable at big clubs. Especially Italian ones.