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Цитаты из произведения Футболономика: Почему Англия проигрывает, Германия и Бразилия выигрывают, а США, Япония, Австралия, Турция и даже Ирак выходят на первый план

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Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:55

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The average player only has the ball for two minutes every game, so his main job is to occupy the right positions for the other 88 minutes.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:55

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If you want to regenerate a poor neighbourhood, regenerate it. Build nice houses and a train line. If you want an Olympic pool and a warm-up track, build them. You could build pools and tracks all across London and it would still be cheaper than hosting the Olympics. The only good reason to host an Olympics is that it…

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Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:54

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Almost all research shows the same thing: hosting sports tournaments doesn’t increase the number of tourists, or of full-time jobs, or total economic growth.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:53

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Knowledge is no use if people in power won’t use it.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:53

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The new manager rarely causes the pendulum to swing. He’s just the beneficiary of the swing.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:52

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Televised press conferences have probably done more than anything else to create the modern myth of the omnipotent manager.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:52

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Whereas players are almost always employed because the club thinks they help win matches, that doesn’t go for managers. Popular ex-players often get the job because they are easily accepted by fans, media, players and sponsors. They are hired as much for who they are as for what they can do.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:51

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But the point of a football club isn’t to have nice accounts – after all, the clubs with horrible accounts survive too. The point of a football club is to win trophies.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:50

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Football clubs need to know what they are. They shouldn’t kid themselves that they are BBA Aviation. Rather, they are like the British Museum: public-spirited organisations that aim to serve the community while remaining reasonably solvent. It sounds like a modest goal, but few of them achieve even that.

Jasly

10 ноября 2014 г., 17:50

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Football is not merely a small business, it’s also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.