Steve McClaren may have been called the
“Wally with the Brolly” when he was a failure as England manager,
but he is regarded as one of the best coaches in the country. He has
many fine ideas about playing the game and off the field he also
makes himself popular, especially with those critics of our national
game. A gentleman's game played by hooligans?
Steve has banned swearing at his club
and the reason is to get his players and staff to maintain calm and
as we all know, a milli-second these days could be crucial. Swearing
shows a lack of control and concentration, so this season Derby has
an all-pervading sense of calm, led from the front by their manager.
The club is successful, so maybe the calm is having its affect. Energy controlled in the right areas!
Down the road, some years ago, Brian
Clough tried hard to stop the Nottingham Forest crowd from using foul
language in their charts. It worked to a certain extent, Clough
seemed calm, didn't he?
At a 12 year old's children's party
recently, a group of young lads gathered together to play half a
match of football and half of rugby. The rugby players were delighted
to play football for part of the game, because they said, “they
could swear”! This tale apparently came from a senior official of
the Football Association who was nearby.
Let us take this issue along the touch
line of junior football matches this weekend where some County
Associations have established “quiet” weekends. I wonder if this
will educate our grassroots players, who eventually, may become
players at the higher level or part of vast crowds filling stadia.
Maybe this will stop the abuse and the throwing of objects, which are
constantly in our news' reports??
Mind you, it would help if the English
manager didn't admit to once using a shisha pipe and Berahino didn't
drink drive!!
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