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[...]... patriarchy and matriarchy as not only did managers think of themselves as father®gures but they also acted as mother-®gures because, like mothers, they were always there to look after their players Some who took on the role of the patriarch often talked about their football club as a `family' What they really meant, however, was that if a football club was a family, then they, as manager, were at its head... corresponding fall in the manager's powers Yet, paradoxically, because of the media, the pro®le of the manager grew Furthermore, with more money at stake, management became more specialized and greater resources went into preparing the players The chapter tries to analyse how and why foreign managers managed the biggest clubs as well as the national team The ®nal chapter pulls together the various themes as it... the administration of the game, and ultimately the management of clubs In 1894, the FA Amateur Cup was established due to the dominance of professional clubs in the FA Cup In 1907 a group of die-hard clubs, mainly from the south, broke away to form the Amateur Football Association, complaining that the FA was only interested in the business of football and that professionalism had infected the game They... in football management The ®rst chapter provides a broad overview of football management in the years up to 1914 It analyses how clubs were then managed and who ran them, initially when they were amateur and then after professionalism was legalized After the Football League was formed in 1888, the game became more competitive yet ®nancially more risky, and clubs formed themselves into limited companies... crowds and, consequently, provide a more reliable source of income.49 At the same time, similar to the ¯ood of amalgamations and consolidations within industry at the time, it created `a framework for [the] greater rationalisation and centralisation of professional football' .50 The model of the Football League was followed by the founding of the Football Alliance in 1889 and the Southern League in... address racecourse of®cials as `sir' Cricket's model of management has revolved around the team captain Through the nature of their position, captains have been aloof ®gures, and for many decades at test level, England captains had to be amateurs, which meant appointment from the upper and middle classes It was not until 1952 that a professional, Len Hutton, was appointed as captain of the England team.16... Villa's early development, however, was George Ramsay He was the club secretary from 1884 to 1926 but before then he had been a player, captain, committeeman, and club chairman Ramsay, a native of Glasgow, was a commercially trained clerk By the early 1870s, Birmingham was rapidly developing into a major manufacturing centre and became known as the `Workshop of the World' Like many others, Ramsay had been... examines the actual importance of managers in relation to the performance of their teams By placing their role in its economic as well as historical context, it asks what difference does a manager actually make? Does the perception of their worth, stimulated by the media, match the reality when analysed against the complexities of football' s production process? In particular, the question of whether... who ran the clubs Football had become a mass spectator sport by the turn of the century The FA Cup Final had rapidly established itself as a national institution and in 1914 King George V was a spectator It was the ®rst time a reigning monarch had attended, giving the game the establishment's stamp of approval The game's growing popularity had been part of the boom that took place in the service industries... maketh the man' but `the media makes the man'; a telling new aphorism for our time The Football Manager is a welcome addition to the association football studies now available in Sport in the Global Society J .A Mangan Boria Majumdar Series Editors Sport in the Global Society Acknowledgements Many people have assisted me in the course of writing this work I am particularly grateful to Tony Mason, who, . often talked about their football club as a `family'. What they really meant, however, was that if a football club was a family, then they, as manager,. parts of the history of asso- ciation football with its comparison of the football manager with the commercial/industrial manager. Admirably, The Football