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Blair McPherson
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13 Chwef 2024 - 13:31

null Running on empty 

Juergen Klopp shocked  the world of professional football recently by announcing he would be  leaving his post of manager of Liverpool at the end of the season. What surprised commentators was his reason. Klopp said ,” I’m running out of energy”. But should we have been surprised that someone in such a high profile, results driven post should call time whilst still delivering... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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06 Tach 2019 - 20:27

null ‘To be a manager you must forget the player you were” Valerity Lobanovskyi - Dynamo Kyiv 

Management is different to being a practitioner. A gifted teacher doesn’t necessarily make a good manager, nor does a social worker, solicited, accountant, or housing officer. And yet most LA chief executives come from one of these professional back grounds. To continue the footballing analogy, to be an effective manager you need to know the game but the skills required are different... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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07 Ebrill 2019 - 15:10

null Being associated with success has a down side

  Liverpool’s striker has become an international super star due to his goal scorning exploits. It is well know that this Egyptian footballer comes from a small remote village. According to the news papers he has become a local hero. Everyone in the village follows his progress and that of his team, they claim he has put the village on the world map and a simile on the faces. But it... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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29 Ebrill 2018 - 20:00

null How can you improve a side whilst selling your best player 

Improving services whilst cutting the budget. It’s seems counterintuitive. It’s the equivalent of improving the team by selling your best players. Generally speaking people including managers see a direct relationship between spending and success.  In contrast the government, or their inspectors and auditors, have continued to maintain there is no direct correlation between what a local... Gweld mwy
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Blair McPherson
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09 Mawrth 2018 - 16:20

null Social Workers Night Out

The football team was made up of social workers, probation officers and their clients. The clients provided the skill, speed and youth, the social workers the organisational skills, transport and reliability, the probation officers the sharp elbows. The social work lecture who ran the team would occasionally organise a team bonding pub crawl. Usually this went off without incident other than... Gweld mwy
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