![]() But you’re not really as you receive a multi-million pound pay out in compensation. You have got the boot for poor results and you are paying the price. You are out of a job – sacked, fired, dismissed, left by mutual consent. Good byeĪnd then just as you are getting used to the hot seat, you have to go. You meet the owners for crisis talks as there are suggestions that you have lost the dressing room, – the players have little or no respect for you – and then, before you know it, you have become a dead man walking. Speculation is rife and rumours abound as others on the merry-go-round sense an opportunity. Stage 5: Trouble aheadīut then results don’t go your way and your name is on the back pages of the papers again, but this time with a picture of you looking upset. Invariably the start of your tenure is a good one as players try harder and a sense of hope surrounds the club and this leads to what is known as a honeymoon period when results improve and everyone loves you (See also new manager bounce). Now you are in charge what do you have to do? Well, you’re responsible for all sorts of jobs, including choosing the tactics, selecting the starting xi, buying and selling players in the transfer market, dealing with agents, the media and your chairman and of course, keeping an eye out for a new job. Don’t forget to sign a contract and make sure there is a pay-out clause, just in case things don’t go as planned. You have succeeded the previous incumbent and finally you can lead the team. Stage 3: AppointedĬongratulations, you have been appointed as first team coach, or manager, or trainer or gaffer or whatever, you have the job. If you see your name written with these phrases then you can improve your job chances by expressing an interest in the position. Of course you need to send in a CV but before you do that you need to be linked with the post or become a target for the club. Or more specifically, the football gossip on the back pages. Therefore, getting onto this merry-go-round is your first priority and to do so you need to read the job advertisements in the newspapers. This is known as the managerial merry-go-round with bosses never really leaving football but seemingly just swapping jobs. Getting a job as a football manager is not such an easy prospect as it seems that the same old faces are always involved. ![]() Here though, and with apologies to the ‘The Bard’, are the seven stages of being a football manager. ‘All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players’ is taken from Shakespeare’s play As You Like It in which the seven stages of man are introduced. ![]() Football Language Podcast: The seven stages of being a football manager – revisited Introduction If you have questions or comments, email us at: (Damian=DF). With the transcript you can improve your English by reading as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make several activities for your learners. There is also a chance to practice your listening with a gap-fill (below). So on this week’s main listening report we take a look back at one of our older reports – this one is from the 2008-09 season – in order to look at some of the language used to describe the role of the football manager. Managers have yet again been in the news this week with some high-profile sackings and lots of speculation about others’ positions. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Blubrry | Email | TuneIn | RSS | More Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:24 - 2.0MB) | Embed
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