January 13, 2011
Guru wants to be the first person to congratulate the game that is 'soccerball' to many around the world, but is commonly known as football in the UK, for its services to human resources.
Just when the rest of the country seems to be getting to grips with workers rights and employers responsibilities, football continues to wave the flag for random acts of kindness - or sacking people with little care for HR or management principles.
On the same day that an old lady from the BBC by the name of Miriam O'Reilly won her case for unfair dismissal on the grounds of age - clearly the judge was in need of a cuppa and realised this was the only verdict that would persuade his PA to agree - Yours Truly heard of the latest sorry soccer shamefest.
Liverpool - allegedly the home of football (at least to the former Irish navvy nation that occupies the turf around the Mersey River) - sacked one wrinkly manager, a former folk singer called Roy of the Hodgsons, or something similar, only to replace him with another wrinkly, former 'soccerball legend' Lord Kenneth of Dalglish. Nothing unfair in that - aside from the suitcase full of fivers that is no doubt already winging its way to the Hodgson hotel room.
Presumably the club has done this to halt the decline in the team's fortunes. Sadly, Yours Truly notes, the not-quite-so-wrinkly football manager Ian Holloway did not pay attention and promptly sent his Blackpool team out to give the 'Reds' (cunningly named after the colour of their shirts) a bloody nose.
So will King Kenny be next out of the door? Yours Truly thinks its entirely likely, for there has never been a more cartoon-like sport when it comes to matters of personnel than football.
What with all the money that changes hands in brown envelopes as managers are culled like Canadian seal puppies, anyone could be forgiven for thinking football was actually run by bankers - or was that a typo?
Soccer is such a peculiar game with such strange employment practices, Guru feels he can quite accurately predict the next manager of Liverpool Football Club - no doubt, to be appointed within the next four games - will be an older woman. Quite possibly Sixties singing sensation Cilla Black.
Just when the rest of the country seems to be getting to grips with workers rights and employers responsibilities, football continues to wave the flag for random acts of kindness - or sacking people with little care for HR or management principles.
On the same day that an old lady from the BBC by the name of Miriam O'Reilly won her case for unfair dismissal on the grounds of age - clearly the judge was in need of a cuppa and realised this was the only verdict that would persuade his PA to agree - Yours Truly heard of the latest sorry soccer shamefest.
Liverpool - allegedly the home of football (at least to the former Irish navvy nation that occupies the turf around the Mersey River) - sacked one wrinkly manager, a former folk singer called Roy of the Hodgsons, or something similar, only to replace him with another wrinkly, former 'soccerball legend' Lord Kenneth of Dalglish. Nothing unfair in that - aside from the suitcase full of fivers that is no doubt already winging its way to the Hodgson hotel room.
Presumably the club has done this to halt the decline in the team's fortunes. Sadly, Yours Truly notes, the not-quite-so-wrinkly football manager Ian Holloway did not pay attention and promptly sent his Blackpool team out to give the 'Reds' (cunningly named after the colour of their shirts) a bloody nose.
So will King Kenny be next out of the door? Yours Truly thinks its entirely likely, for there has never been a more cartoon-like sport when it comes to matters of personnel than football.
What with all the money that changes hands in brown envelopes as managers are culled like Canadian seal puppies, anyone could be forgiven for thinking football was actually run by bankers - or was that a typo?
Soccer is such a peculiar game with such strange employment practices, Guru feels he can quite accurately predict the next manager of Liverpool Football Club - no doubt, to be appointed within the next four games - will be an older woman. Quite possibly Sixties singing sensation Cilla Black.
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