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…
Footballers salaries – please don’t get me started. How can anyone possibly be worth £100,000 a week? Anyhow, good luck to them if they can.
Yes, why shouldn’t the manager be a woman? I think this has happened before although admittedly not at this level.
Before the england manager’s job goes to a women, women need to start being offered jobs in the leagues, to build up their credentials.
Personally anyone could have done a better job than sven.
I would happily have done the job for 1/10 of his annual salary.
Jonathan Ross is used to this sort of money and has a girls haircut. Best of both worlds.