If you met a soccer manager....

[Globalti]

...would you be impressed or completely underwhelmed?

These, for those who don't follow cheese-rolling, are alpha males who chew gum and swear a lot, so they must think themselves Very Important Men. However since I don't have the slightest jot of interest in soccer and am completely unimpressed by the overgrown children who inhabit that world I think it would be curious to be in the same room as one of them for a few minutes. Firstly I probably wouldn't know who he was and even if he was one of the two I might recognise (but be unable to name) I would probably start a conversation about the weather and how late everything is this year. If the conversation did turn to cheese rolling I would not be able to join in because I know so little about it.

Have you ever met somebody who inhabited a completely different world to yourself? What did you talk about?

 

[graham56]

Soccer?
Do you mean football?

 

[PaulB]

Impressed. The manager of the team I support sent me a card which he'd got all his players to sign. I get the strong impression he genuinely cares about his fans and in return, in the main, we care about him.

 

[dan_bo]

My wife! [/les Dawson]

 

[rich p]

I like to think that I wouldn't be impressed by anyone simply because of their job.
To tar all managers as gum chewing alpha males is simply stereotyping.
Some would be interesting and others not.
To name but a few, Sven Goran Erikson, Benitez, Mourinho are multi-lingual intelligent men.
Iain Dowie has a masters degree in engineering, as hass quiet spoken Steve Coppell. Alan Curbishley is a quiet, thoughtful man.
If I found myself in a room with a male ballet dancer I'd have nothing obviously in common but I don't think I'd jump to the conclusion that he must be a mincing camp follower.

 

[Pandaboy]

These, for those who don't follow cheese-rolling, are alpha males who chew gum and swear a lot, so they must think themselves Very Important Men..... If the conversation did turn to cheese rolling I would not be able to join in because I know so little about it.

The cheese rolling has been cancelled this year. Just so you can join in the conversation.

 

[Fnaar]

If I found myself in a room with a male ballet dancer I'd have nothing obviously in common but I don't think I'd jump to the conclusion that he must be a mincing camp follower.

Perhaps you could pirouette to a conclusion

 

[beancounter]

...would you be impressed or completely underwhelmed?

blah blah blah

So you're not interested in football. Well good for you.

bc

 

[accountantpete]

I think a conversation with Colin Murphy would be enjoculable

"I suppose that while accepting the pats on the back, we have to accept the hoots. However discombobulating we have been made to appear, we shall genuinely endeavour to discoidulate the cleavage."

 

[User169]

Not sure they'd automatically start talking about football.

A colleague of mine was at a course and fell into conversation with another attendee who, only when pressed, said that he had been a footballer. "Were you any good?" asked my mate. "Alright" came the reply. It transpired he'd won the Champions league and the European Cup (with the Dutch national side) as a player.

Roy Hodgson seems like an interesting bloke - worked in quite a few different countries, speaks several languages..

 

[ChrisKH]

Underwhelmed. I used to park outside the Southend manager's house when my youngest started piano lessons. He's just a bloke with an interest in dyed blonde women and status cars with personalised plates.

 

[Globalti]

Are football managers just failed footballers then?

 

[beancounter]

Are football managers just failed footballers then?

Sure. Roy Keane, Martin O'Neill, Steve Bruce, Gordon Strachan, Bryan Robson (etc etc) - they were all rubbish footballers.

Look, why don't you stick to posting about something you know about?

bc

 

[Kestevan]

Look, why don't you stick to posting about something you know about?


Good Grief man - if we all did that the boards would be empty.....

 

[ASC1951]

Underwhelmed. I used to park outside the Southend manager's house when my youngest started piano lessons. He's just a bloke with an interest in dyed blonde women and status cars with personalised plates.

Underwhelmed also. During his brief stay as our local manager, Dave "Harry" Bassett used to cut us all up at the traffic lights - zoom down the empty right filter lane in his personalised Merc, then go straight on. Tosser.