crsleicester Posted 14 March 2017 Posted 14 March 2017 23 hours ago, cheshamfox17 said: The problem for me, and I was thinking about fleshing this out into an article at some point, is that football punditry, commentary, even to be honest some fans (at every club) in english football especially is obsessed with the great man of history style analysis. We have had some giant manager like Sir Alex, Clough, Paisley, Shankley etc who built their clubs like empires so we have become stuck to this idea that one person can change the fortunes or the wills of a club and that they then deserve either all the credit or all the blame. We won the title because of, at a guess, 30-40 people, each playing different sized roles and contributing things (big or small) to the title, some of course deserve more credit that other but there are so so many reasons behind why a team does well and a team does badly. Recruitment, sports science, analysis, physio, coaching, tactical training so many things play a role, but of course its too easy for people to just put everything down to one person. So its easy for people to make it out like Ranieri won the title and deserves nearly all the credit when actually its a result of loads of things and people, the same as this season going badly is a result of lots of things Great post Chesham. Ranieri for me was the media darling that the club needed after the meltdown of Nigel. He did that well, they loved him, the team played well so his job was easy. He was polite to them and they lapped it up, making that part of his job a breeze. He was part of a very successful team of people and he happened to be the one employed as manager. Teamwork....as some insufferable kids on some horrific programme used to sing
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