In biz, month-end reveals a truth many overlook. Business is not merely the management of money, but the management of anxiety. Salaries, taxes and other obligations arrive on schedule, whether cashflow does or not. If you're easily irritated, try other venues.
𝟭. 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 failed spectacularly at Valencia CF because he took a massive job with zero managerial grounding. He won 3 of 16 games, oversaw one of the club’s worst runs in decades, lost the dressing room almost immediately, and became a tactical punchbag. Players didn’t trust him, fans protested, and the team collapsed. It wasn’t bad luck he simply wasn’t ready, and La Liga exposed him fast.
𝟮. 𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 lasted 31 days at Oldham Athletic. That alone tells you everything. He walked into a chaotic club, won 1 game in 6, showed no clear identity, no authority, no long-term plan then quit when it got uncomfortable. That’s not failure through pressure; that’s failure through lack of commitment to the craft.
𝟯. 𝗥𝗼𝘆 𝗞𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗲 managed Ipswich Town and later Sunderland AFC. At Ipswich he had a brief high, then burned bridges and left instability. At Sunderland, it went worse: poor results, toxic atmosphere, players switching off. His intensity turned from edge to excess. Motivation without structure doesn’t last over a season, and teams eventually tuned him out.
All three relied on status instead of substance. They thought elite mentality would replace coaching education, tactical depth, and man-management. Football doesn’t work like that anymore.
Legacy gets you the job.
Competence keeps you in it.
None of them had enough of the second, and every club paid the price.
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Opinions are easy when you’re sitting on the sofa.
“Tactics should be like this.”
“That player should start.”
“The manager got everything wrong.”
Everyone suddenly thinks they’re a genius manager.
But the moment you actually stand on the touchline, make decisions in real time, deal with pressure, injuries, egos, and 70,000 fans watching… the story changes very quickly.
Criticising is easy. Managing isn’t.
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Patrice Evra speaks out against his former teammates Scholes, Neville and Keane in a BIG RANT!
"I hope Paul Scholes' Instagram story is fake. I hope he was hacked. But to be honest, I am not even surprised at that from Scholesy. He was the quietest player I have ever played with in my entire career. Now, in the media, he is dropping bombshells."
"I don't understand the lack of support. Michael Carrick is one of us, and he is doing well. It's not just Scholesy, it's Roy Keane and Gary Neville too."
"It annoys me because we want to be in the top four and those comments are unnecessary. But this is what you do when you work in TV, you can't be positive, you have to be negative."
"Most of these guys get a managerial job and then get fired straightaway. I said to Neville: 'It's easy to talk on TV! When you were at Valencia, they asked you for paella and you gave them fish and chips!"
"So.. as players, they're legends, but as managers, they haven't done a great job. So for them to speak and possibly kill the career of a manager, it's a little bit too much."
IT IS FINISHED - Kampala - Hoima road safety awareness walk safely completed.
After 213km in 6 days on a road safety awareness walk, we are now in Hoima, the Oil city.
All through the road we observed a road with many hazards including poor or no signage, no markings, potholes and worrying levels of negligence at road construction sites.
The behavior of us the road users including speeding, reckless overtaking, using the phones while driving are so prevalent on the road all endangering the vulnerable road users, the pedestrians who include our future, the school children.
With 27% of Ugandans living in urban and this growing at 5% annually, the road infrastructure in urban areas doesn’t seem to be in tandem. Instead we have the mess that characterized Kampala for decades spreading to the countryside. We have traders setting up their merchandise on pedestrian walkways, parking on the what was meant to be walkways, some areas have no walkways and even no signage showing motorists, urban centers ahead slow down. With these new urban centers you would think we have a clean slate.
As we spend a few more days in the Oil city, we are set to engage the populace, cultural and local leaders, law enforcement officers on how we can make our roads safe and save lives.
Now meeting the @Bunyoro_Kitara officials and next painting zebra crossing.