What Difference Does A New Manager Make?

Whilst reading Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s phenomenal book Soccernomics I was amazed by one chapter; Do managers' matter?

The line intrigued me. For a position of huge importance, managerial changes in football occur incredibly quickly – looking from the outside they do… decisions clearly take longer behind closed doors – compared to jobs in comparatively important business-world positions.

An Innings Cut Short

Nothing was ordinary about Phillip Hughes. 1000 runs at aged 11 in club cricket. Two sixes to register his first Test century. Another century in the same game at just 19. He couldn’t do ordinary. It wasn’t part of his nature.

Hughes was the incomparable mix of raw, natural talent coupled with an insatiable work ethic and a true, unbridled love for the game.