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I remember at around that time the Yugoslavia coach (forgot his name) said Liverpool are that good if they could enter the World Cup they'd win it.

 

It was his reaction that was telling to me. The fake smile, the delay in reacting as he couldn't get his head round it. I've never liked him as a person. I think it was Nathan Redmond he grabbed round the throat years ago that made me first see him in a different light. He'd been his player, yet there he was playing for Southampton I think, but nobody seemed to question it. That sense that he also wants to be treated as a modern deity conceals much darker things in my view. And yesterday was another instance of the ego fracturing.

That said, to be a high end football manager, there seems to be aspects of control freakery. Mourinho and Ferguson seem slightly lesser examples that easily spring to mind.