The National Football Museum in Preston has asked several leading football managers (and, for some reason, Wayne Rooney) to name their favourite book.
The BBC provides the full list:
Martin Jol (Spurs) Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
Paul Simpson (Carlisle United) Billy - Pamela Stephenson
Hope Powell (England) I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing - Maya Angelou
Steve Cotterill (Burnley) Beyond Winning (Human Kenetics) - Gary M Walton
David O'Leary (Aston Villa) Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer
Graham Souness Fourth Protocol - Frederick Forsyth
Steve Bruce (Birmingham City) Frank Sinatra 'Biography' - Martin Smith
Sam Allardyce (Bolton Wanderers) The Soul of a Butterfly - Mohammed Ali
Jose Mourinho (Chelsea) The Bible
Billy Davies (Preston) Sacred Hoops - Phil Jackson
David Moyes (Everton) Animal Farm - George Orwell
Alan Curbishley (Charlton) Bobalong the Brownie Man - Agnes Grozier Herbertson
Mick McCarthy Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United) Treasure island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
Paul Jewell (Wigan) Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab
Surely David O'Leary should be sacked just for that?
Posted by: TomS | March 28, 2006 at 08:58 AM
If I remember rightly, Ian Branfoot - much pilloried manager of Southampton and Fulham - read a lot of Dickens.
Posted by: TomS | March 28, 2006 at 11:47 AM