Author: Lloyd
Book Review: Quiet Leadership

Are there lessons to be traded between elite football management and business leadership? As much as Carlo Ancelotti comes across as a decent and kind sort, I’m really none the wiser after reading this 2016 memoir come leadership handbook.
I suppose I had fair warning. Ed Wilson pretty much summed it up in his review of the book for When Saturday Comes when he suggested that its ‘wisdom is …
Mental Health Awareness Week: On Being a Football Fan

Football is one of the few things in life that has the power to consistently affect my state of mind for better or worse, so when I started to think about how I might go about exploring its relationship with mental health to kick off a mini-series of posts on this website to mark Mental Health Awareness Week I couldn’t resist looking inwards.
Although such a focus might appear …
Neil Warnock Week: The Argyle Years

Despite managing the Pilgrims for less than 100 games back in the nineties, Neil Warnock remains a firm favourite amongst Plymouth Argyle supporters today — so much so that his name continues to surface every time the team goes on a bad run of form. ‘Warnock would sort this mess out’, so goes the mantra.
At points, a return wouldn’t have been out of the question — not least …