I am Zlatan Ibrahimović by Zlatan Ibrahimović and David Lagercrantz Published by Penguin 2013, £8.99 … Former Leeds United manager Howard Wilkinson was once asked how to deal with the maverick player who isn’t always perhaps the best influence on the dressing room. ‘Sell him to Manchester United for a million pounds’ was the laconic reply. Even after the fact, such self-awareness in relation to the notorious jettisoning of Eric Cantona must displays a rare spirit of mea culpa and the difficulty of dealing with a waywardly inclined star player would more usually provoke a tearing out of hair in…
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David Beckham and Oasis: a Tale of Career Decline
They won’t like this but David Beckham’s retirement from football this week put me in mind of a bunch more readily associated with the other half of Manchester, Britpoppers Oasis. Both came to prominence in the mid to early 90s; Oasis at Glasgow’s King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and Beckham at Preston North End’s Deepdale ground. Initially, the characteristic that united them can be broadly defined as swagger. Beckham would hurtle down the right flank on buccaneering runs before angling in impossibly delicious crosses while Oasis would brandish their guitars like totems; Liam Gallagher’s snarled vocals and Noel’s lofty hauteur…
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