The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses - Tapa blanda

Why has Scotland produced so many of the best football managers in the world? Based on exclusive interviews with the men themselves, their players, or close friends and family, Michael Grant and Rob Robertson reveal the huge contribution that Scottish managers such as Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Matt Busby, Bill Shankly, Jock Stein, Tommy Docherty, Jim McLean, Kenny Dalglish, George Graham, Walter Smith, Gordon Strachan, Alex McLeish, and David Moyes, as well as a host of others, have made to the world game. Completely revised and updated to include the 2012–2013 season, this clever, original and brilliantly realized analysis presents a fascinating account of each man, profiling their character and methods, individual strengths and weaknesses, and their impact on club or international football. It is a deeply researched and compelling story that presents new material on many of the greats, with witty anecdotes on the great managers’ run-ins with the media; a comprehensive roll of honor showing everything they have won; an analysis of the role mining, heavy industry, and politics played in producing these tough, natural leaders; and an assessment of whether Scotland will continue to produce charismatic and successful bosses in the future.

Michael Grant is the chief football writer for the Herald. He has been a football writer for more than two decades and has covered Scottish club and international football all over the world, including three World Cups and three European Championships. Rob Robertson is an award-winning staff sports writer with the Scottish Daily Mail. He is the author of The Don, the authorized biography of Aberdeen and Scotland legend Willie Miller.