Archive for March, 2010
|An Open Letter to the FA, Premier League and the Football League, the PFA and the LMA.
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
The message is simple. If you want to protect and progress our national game, it is time for wholesale reform. The plight of Portsmouth has brought to the wider public eye the issues that have been prevalent throughout the professional and semi professional game for several years. Whatever the public message from the clubs, much of the game is poorly led and operating on a short term false economy.
Should the pressure being put on BskyB by Ofcom come to fruition, there will undoubtedly be less money in the game in the next five years. Are you willing to wait until that happens before you begin significant reform of how the game is governed and more importantly how it is led? (more…)
Tags: Andt Carrol, Change, coaching, FA, football, Football Manager, James Milner, John Terry, Leadership, LMA, PFA, Premier League, Press, Richard Bevan, Soccer, Success In Football, Wayne Rooney, World Cup
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How Football Managers Lose Credibility
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Over this weekend there have been even more examples than ususal of top managers making public comments that are not only unhelpful to others in the game but have a negative impact on their own credibility.
Messers Wenger and Martinez – both of whom I am a fan of – made strong comments about opposition players that contradicted with what fans, other players and managers could see for themselves on TV.
I know as well as anyone how difficult post match interviews are – after all we train clients to do them well. However when so much emotion is involved these are high profile examples of when taking a more neutral line immediately after the game would benefit everyone involved.
While Wenger has built up more than enough credibility to ensure these comments and the subsequent reaction from Tony Pulis will not have an impact on how he is perceived, I hope it’s a lesson to other managers and players to be sure of the message you want to get across before you the cameras roll.
Tags: Football Manager, Martinez, Post Match Interview, Ramsey, Shawcross, Sky Sports, Wenger
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