According to Cambridge boffins, a football manager’s career is based on luck rather than ability.
Rsearchers at Cambridge University have been examining data on the careers of football managers in England, Switzerland, France, Spain, Germany and Japan - covering a total of 7,183 people over 130 years. It concluded that a manager’s tenure is intrinsically linked to his team, and his reputation derives from the team’s performance. That makes sense to me, I could have saved them the time and said as much.
I wonder what Sven and the FA have to say about this most illuminating analysis highlighted by Dr Bill Saslaw, from the Institute of Astronomy. He said:
“Our tentative message is that skill is at most a secondary property of top managers in football, and a lot of success or failure is purely chance.”
Well if lady luck is all that’s needed, I think I’ll see if I can make a killing here. The job has a great salary, foreign travel, long holidays, team talk in the changing rooms. Why can’t we have a woman lead England’s football team? If we can have a woman Prime Minister, then surely managing some lads playing footie should be a piece of cake, as long as I have lots of luck…
