My Rating: 2/5
Since the day he retired from managing Manchester United, I have been pondering over a question. I am a Manchester United Fan or a Sir Alex Furguson Fan. Or are these two same actually the same. When a man remains manager at the club for twenty freaking six years, the club and the manager kinda do not continue to have separate existence. Perhaps the most successful manager in the domain of sports. Duh! not perhaps, as Jesse Pinkman would say "Yo! he is the Bomb!". I mean SAF, I doubt your claim of being a normal human being. How the hell you believe a simple good old "man" can do what he has!
So that makes a great case for reading his autobiography for all the non-Manchester United fans. For rest it is more like a fundamental duty, a tribute to the legend. His managerial work has become a case study at the Harvard Business School. We see great teams changing managers every year like what a tree does to its leaves. But how the hell this guy managed to pull this out for so long. Sheer luck?! Got to be more than that.
He starts with his Scottish roots and his time as a player himself and how aggressive his play was. Then perhaps he used to give the dreaded "Hair-Dryer" to his fellow team-mates and his manager. He was ferocious, passionate about the game. His association with the running of bars as his family business also helped him a lot with learning the essentials of management. In his early days of managing teams, he was a no non-sense manager right from the very beginning. He would never ever run the clubs on the whims and fancies of the owners. He would do what suited him and the team the best way to perform.
You have to give him credit that he talks about a plethora of aspects and possibly covers all the aspects the fans would be interested to read and know about. He talks of the early years in detail which is something the current fan-base might not be so familiar with. He talks of the crucial relationships with Beckham and Ronaldo. He talks of the Class of 92. He talks about the ups and downs with Rooney, Wenger and Mourinho. All in all a complete package.
But know comes the hard part. Not a very good writer or narrator I would say. He has filled most of the spaces with lots of facts and figures. But the reader gets those normally on the Sports supplements anyways. The reader wants to know beyond. The reader wants to connect at a much deeper level perhaps. But there is hardly any leeway for achieving that. But then again, you cannot have it all folks. Just relax and enjoy the Theatre of Dreams, though "literally" this time!
Since the day he retired from managing Manchester United, I have been pondering over a question. I am a Manchester United Fan or a Sir Alex Furguson Fan. Or are these two same actually the same. When a man remains manager at the club for twenty freaking six years, the club and the manager kinda do not continue to have separate existence. Perhaps the most successful manager in the domain of sports. Duh! not perhaps, as Jesse Pinkman would say "Yo! he is the Bomb!". I mean SAF, I doubt your claim of being a normal human being. How the hell you believe a simple good old "man" can do what he has!
So that makes a great case for reading his autobiography for all the non-Manchester United fans. For rest it is more like a fundamental duty, a tribute to the legend. His managerial work has become a case study at the Harvard Business School. We see great teams changing managers every year like what a tree does to its leaves. But how the hell this guy managed to pull this out for so long. Sheer luck?! Got to be more than that.
He starts with his Scottish roots and his time as a player himself and how aggressive his play was. Then perhaps he used to give the dreaded "Hair-Dryer" to his fellow team-mates and his manager. He was ferocious, passionate about the game. His association with the running of bars as his family business also helped him a lot with learning the essentials of management. In his early days of managing teams, he was a no non-sense manager right from the very beginning. He would never ever run the clubs on the whims and fancies of the owners. He would do what suited him and the team the best way to perform.
You have to give him credit that he talks about a plethora of aspects and possibly covers all the aspects the fans would be interested to read and know about. He talks of the early years in detail which is something the current fan-base might not be so familiar with. He talks of the crucial relationships with Beckham and Ronaldo. He talks of the Class of 92. He talks about the ups and downs with Rooney, Wenger and Mourinho. All in all a complete package.
But know comes the hard part. Not a very good writer or narrator I would say. He has filled most of the spaces with lots of facts and figures. But the reader gets those normally on the Sports supplements anyways. The reader wants to know beyond. The reader wants to connect at a much deeper level perhaps. But there is hardly any leeway for achieving that. But then again, you cannot have it all folks. Just relax and enjoy the Theatre of Dreams, though "literally" this time!
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