From Adrian Caddy:
Premier League manager table after 21 games:
1. Antonio Conte 52
2. Mauricio Pochettino 45
3. Jurgen Klopp 45
4. Arsene Wenger 44
5. Pep Guardiola 42
6. Jose Mourinho 40
7. Ronald Koeman 33
Michael Budgen is right Myles, it is sad.
But the EPL manager’s league table is really a tiny indicator of why it is so sad.
The Tories have being selling-off the UK and selling-out its people since the end of the WW1. For as long as Rupert Murdoch has been stinking out the planet.
More than eighty years of being sold-out.
Does anyone think that anyone in government or anyone in business, let alone anyone in the business of football, gives the tiniest toss whether there’s a healthy pool of British football managers in the top clubs?
Does anyone care whether there’s a clear, visible, identifiably British philosophy for how to play football, let alone winning football?
Of course they don’t. They never did, nor did their predecessors or their predecessors predecessors.
Myles says:
The great men of British football, the men with real insight and passion, are all dead now.
Herbert Chapman, Matt Busby, Jock Stein, Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Alf Ramsey, Brian Clough & Peter Taylor.
They would be dismayed to live in a world where the rich are now greedier than they’ve ever been.
The most memorable paragraph I encountered in 2016 was in a piece by Alan Rusbridger where he was quoting Luke Harding:
In a seminar room in Oxford, one of the reporters who worked on the Panama Papers is describing the main conclusion he drew from his months of delving into millions of leaked documents about tax evasion. “Basically, we’re the dupes in this story,” he says. “Previously, we thought that the offshore world was a shadowy, but minor, part of our economic system. What we learned from the Panama Papers is that it is the economic system.”
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/27/panama-the-hidden-trillions/