This week it is not just red blooded sport billys talking about football. Everyone it seems, has an opinion on the monopolist Thai-owned Leicester City sacking of 5,000-1 title winning boss Claudio Ranieri. Universally (almost) thought to be a disgrace. Dilly ding dilly gone. From Jose Mourinho to Eddie
Serie A’s Napoli are through to the Spring knockout rounds as group stage winners in this season’s Champions League. They are currently coached by someone who clearly values preparation. Maurizio Sarri came through the amateur ranks and so perhaps holds higher gratitude for his career than contemporaries. His
The miracle worker that is the Australian-Japanese rugby coach, Eddie Jones. For the first time, England have gone an entire calendar year not simply unbeaten, but victorious all the way. Thirteen wins on the bounce. More startling still when you consider that prior to his reign, England didn’t even
Yes yes. I know there are sales leaders who purposely ignore the ways of sport teams. They cite the false allure of a passing management fad, the implausibility of a workplace world championship calling and the wild imbalanced reversal in the ratio of Training to Doing. When they learn the
St George’s Park. Gleaming new tech-colossus/Bond-villain-liar style (delete as appropriate) HQ of English football. Greg Dyke. A man “successful” in telly administration? He proved fish out of water running infamous meddlers, sporting body The Football Association. He thought it a good idea to place a particular clock on