Today he talks about what you need to be a good football manager.
ROY ON HIS MANAGERS
Today he talks about what you need to be a good football manager.
"Brian Clough dealt in detail, facts, specific incidents and, invariably, he got it
right.
"Brian Clough and Stuart Pearce helped me shed that habit and I lived and
learned in that hard school.
I hope you are reading this Mr O'Leary
"Most managers don't manage at all. They pick the team, buy players, dictate
tactics, placate the directors and court the media. Then they get the sack.
And on Fergie:
"Alex Ferguson is different. He knows Manchester United from top to bottom,
watches A and reserve team games as keenly as the first team and will know
as much about the strengths and weaknesses of a youth team player.
"He is renowned for his attention to detail.
"Last season, he ordered a crèche to be built at Old Trafford, so wives and
kids could attend home games in a comfortable family environment.
"A small, yet important gesture to improve a situation. That is real
management."
While injured Keano had the chance to look at the football world from the
outside. This was the conclusion he made:
"The game looked like a bad movie, full of spivs, bluffers, bull*****ers,
hangers-on, media whores and bad actors.
Nothing we hadn't realised ourselves then.