Will You Manage?: The Necessary Skills to Be a Great Gaffer, by Musa Okwonga, Serpent’s Tail RRP£9.99, 248 pages
The Manager: The Absurd Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football, by Barney Ronay, Sphere RRP£8.99, 304 pages
“What you have to understand,” explained Sir Alex Ferguson, the 69-year-old Glaswegian who has managed Manchester United Football Club for the past 24 years, “is that the most important man at Manchester United is the manager.” He was reflecting, in a television interview last month, on the bizarre week in mid-October that began with his star striker Wayne Rooney saying he wanted to leave the club and ended with Rooney signing a new five-year contract. In case there was any doubt who he was referring to, Ferguson added calmly: “I am the most important man at Manchester United – it has to be that way.”
A few days after this interview Carlo Ancelotti, the manager of Chelsea, who this weekend play Ferguson’s United in the season’s biggest game to date, was asked by journalists about uncertainty surrounding his own position. Just six months after he led the club to its first league and FA Cup double, there was talk of his being replaced. If others were confused, Ancelotti was not. “You compare me with Ferguson,” he told journalists at a press conference. “It’s a different position. Ferguson has total control of his team. I have just technical direction. Full stop.”
Will You Manage?: The Necessary Skills to Be a Great Gaffer, by Musa Okwonga, Serpent’s Tail RRP£9.99, 248 pagesThe Manager: The Absurd Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football, by Barney Ronay, Sphere RRP£8.99, 304 pages“What you have to understand,” explained Sir Alex Ferguson, the 69-year-old Glaswegian who has managed Manchester United Football Club for the past 24 years, “is that the most important man at Manchester United is the manager.” He was reflecting, in a television interview last month, on the bizarre week in mid-October that began with his star striker Wayne Rooney saying he wanted to leave the club and ended with Rooney signing a new five-year contract. In case there was any doubt who he was referring to, Ferguson added calmly: “I am the most important man at Manchester United – it has to be that way.”A few days after this interview Carlo Ancelotti, the manager of Chelsea, who this weekend play Ferguson’s United in the season’s biggest game to date, was asked by journalists about uncertainty surrounding his own position. Just six months after he led the club to its first league and FA Cup double, there was talk of his being replaced. If others were confused, Ancelotti was not. “You compare me with Ferguson,” he told journalists at a press conference. “It’s a different position. Ferguson has total control of his team. I have just technical direction. Full stop.”
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