CAN YOU MANAGE IT?

There’s only one
certainty in football:
managers get sacked.

Brian Kerr

Steve McClaren has achieved the
unique feat of making even Sven
Goran-Eriksson look good.

Ian Ridley

There are two types of manager:
those who’ve just been sacked and
those who are just about to be.

Howard Wilkinson

Barry Fry’s management is
based on the chaos theory.

Mark McGhee

For me to win the Manager of
the Month award I would have
to win nine games out of eight.

Sheffield United’s Neil Warnock in 2003

You’re not a real manager
until you’ve been sacked.

Malcolm Allison

Even Ferguson and Wenger
had their recurrent weaknesses;
neither, to take a common instance,
appeared capable of distinguishing
a top-class goalkeeper from a
cheese-and-tomato sandwich.

Patrick Barclay

Alex Ferguson is the best manager
I’ve had at this level. Well, he’s the
only manager I’ve had at this level.

David Beckham

Arsene Wenger and Alex
Ferguson don’t conduct post-match
pleasantries as a general rule. The
Arsenal manager would, however,
be happy to crack open a bottle of
red with his Manchester United
counterpart – provided he could use
the Scot’s head as a corkscrew.

Andrew Fifield

If a manager isn’t fired with
enthusiasm he’ll be fired
– with enthusiasm.

Joe Lovejoy

The easiest team for a manager
to pick is the Hindsight Eleven.

Craig Brown

A manager must buy cheap and
sell dear. If another manager rings
to ask me about a player I’ll say
‘He’s great, super lad, goes to
church twice a day. Good in the
air, two lovely feet, make a great
son-in-law.’ You never tell them he
couldn’t trap a bag of cement.

Tommy Docherty

Chelsea have just launched
a new aftershave called ‘The
Special One’ by U Go Boss.

Pat Flanagan after Jose Mourinho’s shock
departure from Chelsea in September 2007

Anyone who’s thinking of applying
for the job of Scotland manager in
the next eight or nine years should
go and get themselves checked
out by about 15 psychiatrists.

Martin O’Neill

The secret of being a good
manager is to keep the six
players who hate you away from
the five who are undecided.

Jock Stein

If Mickey Mouse had taken charge,
it would have given the place a lift.

Mike Walker on Everton in 1994

I have come to the conclusion
that nice men do not make
the best managers.

Graeme Souness

Matt Busby was the eternal
optimist. In 1968 he still believed
that Glenn Miller was just missing.

Patrick Crerand

Great leaders inspire their men
to glory. Steve McClaren will be
remembered as a wally with a brolly.

Daily Mail

The three greatest football
managers of all time were Jock
Stein, Jock Stein and Jock Stein.

Doug McLeod