It always amuses me when it's suggested that Ferguson and Wenger were failures as footballers. Both of them played professionally which means they were a lot better than average and this undoubtedly gave them an edge when they moved into management.
Assuming you are not totally clueless about the sport surely anyone who has an understanding and has good managerial and people skills would make a good job of it.
IndeedI'm sure it's an advantage but not critical.
A bit. Not exactly. I'm suggesting that you don't need to have even played. Ever.Eh..isn't that what I said?
4 Charity Shields, a Scottish League Cup
Bit of trivia: Dalglish is only the third manager in the history of the game
Gordon Strachan was far from a poor manager! He had a better record at Celtic than Martin O'Neill. He just started to take himself too seriously after that (travelling the world studying soccer in other countries to try and improve his own management style) rather than having faith in his own abilities.
2nd round of the champions league beating man utd on the way and only going out to ac milan in extra time says he's a better manager than you're giving him credit for.Managing Celtic and only having to better the one solitary other side in a very poor Scottish league no better than the English League one does not quantify him as a good manager, he also achieved a modicum of success at Southampton (cup final loss to Man Utd) but was sacked by both Coventry and more recently Middlesborough for errrr....being crap.
If he is a good manager lets see just which high profile position he takes up next ?
Reporter: So, Gordon, in what areas do you think Middlesbrough were better than you today?
Strachan: What areas? Mainly that big green one out there...
4 Charity Shields, a Scottish League Cup
Fixed that for ya
What about the 'Kirkcaldy's' Raith Rovers famous win over Celtic in the 94/95 League Cup Final when they were a 1st division side. Them boys are still legends in Raith today - not to be smirked at
I'll give you one about 'the history of football', but following too many years of listening to Andy Gray and Co, I'd forgotten the game was played outside England
Paul McStay missing a penalty in the shoot out! Of all people!4 Charity Shields, a Scottish League Cup
Fixed that for ya
What about the 'Kirkcaldy's' Raith Rovers famous win over Celtic in the 94/95 League Cup Final when they were a 1st division side. Them boys are still legends in Raith today - not to be smirked atDark times they were indeed for the Celts.
2nd round of the champions league beating man utd on the way and only going out to ac milan in extra time says he's a better manager than you're giving him credit for.
He also won 3 league titles in a row with Celtic, something not done since Jock Stein was in charge.
I never said it was a "roaring success", I was making the point that a crap manager wouldn't get a team playing in a crap leagueIf you just left it at the last two lines it would sound better, but reaching the second round of anything doesn't sound like a roaring sucess.
York city bet United too, can't remember who their manager was and they went to the 4th round!
I never said it was a "roaring success", I was making the point that a crap manager wouldn't get a team playing in a crap leagueout of the group stage of the champions league.
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