Charting the progress of more than 20 soccer managers, at all different levels of the game A man punches the wall in a strategic show of anger. Another complains he has become a stranger to those he loves. A third relies on "my three a day: coffee, Nurofen and a bottle of wine." Yet another admits he is an oddity, who would prefer to be working in cricket. A fifth describes his professional life as "a circus." These are football managers, live and uncut. Arsene Wenger likens the job to "living on a volcano: any day may be your last." He speaks with the authority of being the...
Charting the progress of more than 20 soccer managers, at all different levels of the game A man punches the wall in a strategic show of a...
Award-winning sports writer Michael Calvin turned up for the first day of pre-season training at Millwall FC and 333 days later he sat among the subs at Wembley.
Award-winning sports writer Michael Calvin turned up for the first day of pre-season training at Millwall FC and 333 days later he sat among the subs ...
*Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men and Living on the Volcano is back to complete his football trilogy with a new book that tells the inside story of becoming a professional footballer.*
"What's your dream, son?"
A six year-old boy, head bowed, mumbles the eternal answer: "Be a footballer...." Steadman Scott, football's most unlikely talent scout, smiles indulgently, and takes him in from the street. He knows the odds. Only 180 of the 1.5 million boys who play organised youth football in England will become a Premier League pro. That's a success...
*Award-winning author of The Nowhere Men and Living on the Volcano is back to complete his football trilogy with a new book that tell...