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Neither Lampard nor Gerrard did anything to warrant being given a managerial job apart from being high profile English players - and their appointments had disaster written all over it.

The key to Brian Clough's success at Forest was down to getting Peter Taylor to be his assistant again. Great story about Clough's man-management in dealing with Roy Keane. When Clough signed Keane he paid Cobh Ramblers £15,000. The Cobh Chairman told Clough he would have taken £10,000 - Clough...

Frank O'Farrell had the potential to be a top manager - and was sold a pig in a poke by Man Utd. Busby wouldn't vacate the manager's office and whenever there was a problem the players promptly went to Busby who invariably over-ruled O'Farrell. Bobby Charlton was Busby's stooge in the...

Gary O'Neil is supposed to have the job - a nightmare job this season - Wolves had to sell a load of players because of FFP.

The Leeds board made a massive f*ck-up with that appointment. Clough had been hurling abuse at the Leeds players for two seasons. When he got there he told the players to throw all their medals in a bin because they didn't deserve them. Johnny Giles should have been made manager after Revie -...

When Brian Clough went to Leeds :ffsparr:

Yea - all the hallmarks of a banana skin - Luton know they are heading straight back down - so they will throw everything into the first game and the few after it. It would be much better to play them at the end of September when they have been hammered a couple of times. 2-1

I would never teach in academia - or any third level institution - by that stage most of those that get there realise they are doing the wrong thing and don't give a sh*t - or they are arrogant pr*cks who I couldn't tolerate. They come through the education system and are already cooked. I teach...

Yes we do live in a capitalist society - one that is starting to come apart at the seams (think inter-war period coming apart). We have to live, eat, have a roof over our heads - we have to try and earn the money to do that. But we should just accept that doing a 40 hour week on a minimum wage...

Gender roles are the result of and are constructed by class-based societies. There are countless examples in history of how pre-capitalist societies approached gender roles. Example - the Navajo nation among the native American tribes recognised four specific genders and acknowledged that it...

I have sat in countless parent teacher meetings with parents who have illusions about what their child was capable of getting as a grade or not - and I have demonstrated to those parents that focusing exclusively on grades does the child a disservice and can actually be detrimental. Some...

While I can't see the Blairites sanctioning Izzard as a candidate - it would be fun if it happened.

No alone is gender labelling a social construct - it is a social construct of capitalism. Pre-industrial societies were largely absent of any definitions of gender, as they were of homophobia and the modern notion of a nuclear family. The monarchy of Little Vic and the ruling elites she...

Even though it may not seem so on here - I do have a little bit of a sense of humour. The question in the classroom is usually - 'Sir, who do you vote for?' - my reply is 'have you not figured it out yet? clearly I have a little more work to do before ye are finished here'.

This thread demonstrates the point I was making on the Aaron Connolly thread about the fact that sport and politics cannot be separated. McClean and his family have received countless abuse and threats over his refusal to wear the poppy. But this is based on a reactionary gut reaction to the...

I teach in a comprehensive school - and they are the most progressive type of school within the current education framework. However, streaming is the worst part of any education system and it is based on the 'meritocratic' nature of capitalist society (which actually is far more about how...

Cool - love it when I see people taking an active interest in studying history.

Well - you must remember that Ireland has 700 years of colonial history - indeed, depending on your political perspective, it still suffers from imperial domination (something that I agree with - and I am not an Irish republican). So you cannot research and understand and write about class...

Actually one division - Wigan were relegated last season. It's actually a very good move for him - and for Wrexham. The guy is 34 - way past his sell-by date as an international player (and I always felt he was over-rated) - but he is good enough to do a decent job with Wrexham. He will emerge...

There is a little misunderstanding of my comment on this - and it is my fault for not being specific enough - the purpose of the grammar school system as it was established in the 1940s was to keep education divided along class lines - with working class kids attending the grammar schools and...