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The Manager
- Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders
- Narrated by: Kyle Munley
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be the manager. But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in crisis? What’s the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure?
The issues are the same whether you’re managing a Premier League football team or an FTSE 100 company.
Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be the most adroit of leaders. In The Manager they explain their methods, give examples of lessons they’ve learned along the way, and describe the decisions they make and the leadership they provide.
Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue for managers in any walk of life and, in their own words, shows how the experts deal with the challenges they face in an abnormally high-pressure environment. Offering valuable lessons for business leaders and fascinating behind-the-scenes insights for football fans, The Manager is an honest, accessible and unprecedented look at the day-to-day work of these high-profile characters and the world of top-level football management.
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- gary
- 10-10-13
You cannot be serious
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Getting somebody with a british accent that can pronounce the names of clubs and players. An American with no football knowledge, not an inspired choice.
Would you recommend The Manager to your friends? Why or why not?
Absolutely not. The worst audio book I've ever listened to. Whoever made the decision to allow that guy to narrate should be sacked now.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Couldn't pronounce a single club or players name properly. It was extremely annoying to start with but I began to laugh in the end but it ruined the book completely.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Manager?
All of them read by this guy who has the kind of voice a hypnotist would die for.
Any additional comments?
Please redo the book with a british narrator.
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9 people found this helpful
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- Martin S.
- 06-09-13
Decent content. Abysmal narration.
What disappointed you about The Manager?
A narrator who mispronounced names with shocking regularity. Bobby Carlton (not Charlton) Sow-ness (not Souness) Paris Saint Ger-main (not ger-man) keltic (not Sell-tic). Awful!
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Kyle Munley?
Anyone who knows the first thing about football!
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Anger- there is someone who has been deprived of a narrating job.
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7 people found this helpful
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- George
- 07-07-14
Awfully read
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The reading in what could be best described as a sat nav voice being replaced for a fluent reading.
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
I would not have.
What didn’t you like about Kyle Munley’s performance?
It was comparable to a cheap sat nav, football teams pronounced incorrectly.
You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
It was factual.
Any additional comments?
I would probably recommend this book to purchase and read however the reading was truly awful. Filled with fact and content for the football enthusiast, but remaining focused near impossible. The man could not even say Celtic frustrating at best.
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- christopher
- 08-01-15
Worth a read
Some interesting facts and story's worth a read if you are a coach or manager of a football team I
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- Wrighty
- 12-04-16
Good book poorly narrated
Great content and insight into the leadership techniques required in football management. It was let down a little because the narrator pronounced every English and / or Scottish name phonetically instead of correctly. Made it sound very disconnected from the subject matter.
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- Greg C.
- 02-07-15
Oh GOD
What disappointed you about The Manager?
how was Kyle Munley allowed to be narrator? He could't pronounce single player / manager surname or name of the club.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Manager?
narrator pronouncing Celtic
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Kyle Munley?
Anyone who is not a robot and have seen at least 1 game of football in their live.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Manager?
just the narrator I would cut, over and over
Any additional comments?
Was looking forward to this book but narrator made in unbearable
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- katie jones
- 26-10-20
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Good content just American narrator so pronounced everything wrong from places to peoples names. Overall good.
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- Craig Hutchins
- 06-01-20
Sounds like a computer is reading it
waste of time like listening to a robot, poor and a waste of a monthly credit ... not happy
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- I D MURPHY
- 04-06-19
I regret purchasing this
What I thought would be insightful and knowledgeable turned out to be anything but. It's wholly letdown by the narrator inability to pronounce names and places etc.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-18
Fantastic listen, poor pronunciation of Names
I found the mispronounced managers names difficult and football clubs names really ruined what could have been a 5 star listen
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