the nascent appeal of managerial competency

article also implies that those avatars of plebeian knuckle dragging, the players themselves, are more intelligent than the mill-owner ideology of trad british fitba hierarchy would allow

ffs ok i'll read it

havent seen an irish this crap at reading since noel hunt

Boom

glass everywhere, inla denying involvement

klats otm, the article gets right to the point of mourinho and then seems to pass it by as it were just smoke & mirrors

communication (w/ players and media) is manipulation is managing

not to mention communication not just being talking a good teleprompter game but the subconscious inculcation of what it is u want

results is results, brit footer was happy to wet itself over rodgers when the wins rolled in, less so when replaced by indifferent lack of penetration and leadership conference guff

maybe 'communication' is more valued here than in the countries that produced van gaal, benitez or mancini because managers are omnipotent (no sporting directors), often entrenched for years and the cult of the leader is more numinous

see all of the fuss about captains -- ~the armband~ as metonym for a set of cherished values compared to countries where it is essentially an honorific function exercised in turn by the most senior players

ferguson and mourinho are the best at all of this but they are also great at the more technical stuff

i think villas boas would seem quite distinctive in most of europe, even where there have been studious managers obsessed with discussing tactics like zeman or bielsa or whoever

v-b is not really a stunningly innovative tactician, he is just a clever articulate ardent young manager who is happy to talk fairly openly with the media and likes to assume that are at the same level and interested in the same things

they are happy to play dumb and gently patronize him as an uppity dork with questionable emotional resilience and lack of 'football man' background, while hedging slightly cuz he has shown signs of significant talent and may well turn out to be successful here

rodgers seems quite different temperamentally, a bit more of a charismatic than v-b, with his weird soulful lugubrious intonations about character and slightly mawkish avuncularity towards his players

he has the kind of absracted 'natural confidence' that public schools try to instill whereas insofar as v-b is confident it's as a function of his demonstrated aptitudes and achievements, so when chelsea started playing like shit he looked like a cornered fox

if deems is right and the liverpool ship sinks, then rodgers will still be cooing and spewing portentous folk wisdom as the rats jump into sea

I'm sitting absolutely cunted in a pub, thinking about a girl who's just left for Blackpool, feeling more or less festively despondent, and just declared to myself "fantastic post". An accolade that will be rigging down the pisser of this Brentford pub for years to come. Karleigh Osborne says hello.

ringing.

She will come back. Believe.

I'm trying to upload a photo a photo of Karleigh Osborne's signed Brentford shirt. it's not going v well because I can't operate my phone v easily.

fantastic post

xxxp

i'm not declaring rodgers a certain failure i'm merely saying that the collegiately cosy insistence that there is unquestioned ~progress~ happening along some defined line towards 'success' is hardly a bedrock position.

No i've not read it yet fuck off

surely nakh is avoiding the concept of "progress" and saying that here is an example of the notion of non typical non fatalistic manager speak, admittedly as self-sustaining in its own way as the nugatory crypto-philosophical content of... and I can't remember the anti-Rodgers name I was going to use. totally arseoled tbqf.

I can't believe I'm not the only person on ILX with a signed Karleigh Osborne shirt. What do you have to do to carve out yr own niche, ffs.

Find Rodgers a bit creepy if I'm honest.

http://e1.365dm.com/12/11/660x350/Brendan_2859497.jpg

http://i2.wp.com/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/rodgers.png?w=544

you're not going to condemn him for that, come on

I can't believe I'm not the only person on ILX with a signed Karleigh Osborne shirt. What do you have to do to carve out yr own niche, ffs.

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only in the pub. speaking of which, apologies for sprawling all over this thread last night, bursting into conversation with blurred and noisy incoherence, while people look embarrassed into their pints.

you assholes don't post enough ffs

surely nakh is avoiding the concept of "progress" and saying that here is an example of the notion of non typical non fatalistic manager speak, admittedly as self-sustaining in its own way as the nugatory crypto-philosophical content of... and I can't remember the anti-Rodgers name I was going to use. totally arseoled tbqf.

I see where i went wrong. It was using the word 'crypto' after 'nugatory' - what i meant (hmmm) was 'admittedly as self-sustaining in its own way as the nugatory philosophical content of a.. well a more conventional manager' - I think the grinding poverty of Pulis's interviews meant he was foremost in what there was of my mind. That said of course, their to be fair at the end of the day 'common sense' formulations provide a good shield in interviews (articulating thought is open to analysis), while speaking in terms that are too dead to be seriously offensive to most people, unless they are particularly alert to the irritations of monotony and whingeing about refs. These formulations do not in themselves bespeak any meagreness of thought, but it can be hard to tell a hawk from a handsaw, or an Arry from a Pulis.

In different ways AVB and BR discard the shield and open themselves up with either Quixotic folly or inspired genius, depending on whether they're successful or not. The nature of the success probably also has to reflect their articulation of it, but then again, to a certain extent, if the nature of failure or lack conspicuous success reflects the manager's articulation of their vision, then it seems to me they're likely to be cut more slack than a more guarded manager.

The perception of managerial competency then has something to do with the age old problem of rhetoric as put forward by Quintilian - how you inescapably ensure good rhetoric is also good truth/morally good (so consequently the better it is, the truer/morally better it is).

Following that line suggests that despite the rather canny or prudent approach of the platonic ideal of a Scottish manager (say), in fact yer AVBs and yer BRs may, despite appearances, actually have a greater inherent strength/longevity - if they can get project their rhetoric (rhetoric in the strongest sense, as accurately reflective of thought) onto the team.

At the end of the day it's a results game tbqf tho and 'ah that man's reach shd exceed his grasp' is not an argument that will be tolerated for long.

hmm. now, i'll be thinking the alcohol hasn't quite worn off. I'm hieing me awae to the Natural HIstory Museum.

*if they can get project their rhetoric

breaking my curfew again (actually I'm thinking of breaking it for good but with a different username, only boards viewed ILB, ILM and ILF) to ask, are you Gamaliel Ratsey? just wondrin yknow. also your posts itt have been wonderful as usual

that's him and yeah, he has been appointed doyen of ILB (is that honorific or plenipotentiary idk?)

lmao at that photo of rodgers titsniffing

kind of imagine him spending a lot of time on away trips sitting in underlit corners of hotel bars

you might not speak english but with love, just like football, the language is international

oh, the girls of makhachkala
they're not called sue or carla
but to a lonely ulster boy, ohhh

yep, that's right, oawia - thank you!

charitable sinecure only, Nilmar.

Would you join us for ILF book club, Fizzles? It'll be Fever Pitch and I've been meaning to schedule it for a while but've been busy. Middle of January is possible.

only a game? or gtfo

http://images.angusrobertson.com.au/images/ar/97805525/9780552562454/0/0/plain/tj-and-the-hat-trick.jpg

oof, Fever Pitch? go on then. I have read it years ago. I don't remember having a v high opinion of it, but it might be interesting to revisit. xpost

I've read some of that! Not sure it'd stand up to this more verbose turn that ILF has taken overnight.

Argh! I was talking about Theo's book there.

Isn't it enough that I read about Liverpool not winning the league every day on ILF? Now you want me to re-read an entire book about it?

If you want a book about Liverpool winning the league you'll have to check the sci-fi section. Heh heh

Whereas Utd winning the league ones are to be found in True Crime.

more like Art History. Or something

nicely done

read the article. vegan.

cryptic

mistranslated, maybe

vegan?

vegan

http://i.imgur.com/sOZYc.jpg

http://www.animalsuffering.com/resources/photos/images/Meat-Free-Zone-or-Vegan.jpg

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=301288.0

first line is pretty special

“I am a manager, a doctor, a nuclear physicist, a theoretical philosopher, but above all, I am a man. Just like you."

i am none of those things fwiw

tried to watch some of being liverpool tonight and couldn't make it past a line about 'liverpool will need to perform strongly if james carragher's father is to ever win a league medal' or soemthing. rodgers seemed alright- not v comfortable with cameras about, none of them were rly