Without the fighters you are out of business … If fighters are dirt, what are managers made of? The Harder they Fall, Humphrey Bogart, cited After the Last Round, 1956
In my early days I always knew what I wanted to do. Bobby Robson: More than a Manager, Bobby, Netflix 2018
Ipswich: I didn’t have any real credibility as a manager. No real experience. I was a young greenhorn. They were taking a chance on me. ibid.
Miles ahead of his time. ibid. Terry Butcher
A fantastic piece of management. ibid. Alex Ferguson
He just had this aura about him. ibid. Terry Butcher
He made you feel so good about yourself and about your job. ibid.
Maradona handled the ball into the goal. Didn’t he? Didn’t he? ibid. Bobby
The relationship between Bobby and Gazza was extraordinary. ibid. Lineker
He made me feel calm. ibid. Ronaldo
Take time to smell the roses. ibid. Robson
‘Do I not like that.’ Graham Taylor: The Impossible Job, opening scene in dugout, Channel 4 1994
There are certain advantages in being the former manager of the England football team. The morning post is friendly, the critics have discovered new targets and the world’s no longer free of unwanted advice. ibid.
‘Now all of the problems that go with that … it’s never been an easy job for anyone; some people would describe it as an impossible job.’ ibid. Taylor
I sweat a lot. You know, I’m waking up with the usual pyjamas wet through. ibid.
‘He turned the average into the extraordinary.’ Clough: The Brian Clough Story, 2009
He played for England only twice in a career cut short by injury. ibid.
Within two years of Brian Clough’s arrival, Derby were Second Division champions. ibid.
‘Good managers make good sides.’ ibid. Clough
By 1972 Derby County were League champions for the first time in their history. ibid.
‘There was nearly anarchy at the football club [Leeds]. ibid. Gordon McQueen
David Peace has pangs of regret about writing The Damned United. ibid.
Clough’s contract worth about £100,000 was paid up in full. ibid.
‘In the end he succeeded and Leeds didn’t.’ ibid. Geoffrey Boycott
‘You have to be a bit mad to be a manager.’ ibid. Mrs Barbara Clough
‘There’s something about the aura of the man can make you do anything.’ ibid. Kenny Burns
Clough became only the second manager to win the League championship with two different clubs. ibid.
According to the man who headed up the FA’s press office, the interview process was flawed. ibid.
30 years ago Nottingham Forest became the best team in Europe. ibid.
[John Barnett, Boeing Quality Manager 1985-2017]: Going against a big company like Boeing does not happen every day. Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing, Netflix 2026
So what he was instructing people to do was violate rules and regulations that they could be actually held liable, criminally charged for. We could very well be putting the public at risk. ibid. John’s deposition
Boeing has given the world another reason to stop flying. ibid. news
Then all of a sudden the whole atmosphere changed. ibid. employee
Jim McNerney was a long-time executive at General Electric … When McNerney takes over, Boeing goes all in on the Jack Welch-style ‘profits above all else’. ibid. comment
Boeing’s plan was to build this plane [787 Dreamliner] for $5 billion, half of what it would normally have cost. ibid.
They were going to be outsourcing major sections of the airplane to save money. ibid.
Boeing finds 787 pieces aren’t quite a perfect fit. ibid. The Seattle Times online article
And McNerny hated unions … he’s saying, We’ll, were gonna build a second 787 line in South Carolina. ibid. comment
Charleston had a workforce that simply didn’t know how to construct one of the most complicated machines in the world. Mistakes started piling up almost immediately. ibid.
I was instructed to get rid of the video. ibid. quality manager
When McNerny stepped down, the board installed his hand-picked successor, Dennis Muilenburg. ibid.
Nothing changes. It actually gets worse. ibid. quality manager
Just a little [electrical] short will bring down a whole plane. ibid.
I see the quality of the fucking shit going down here. ibid. comment
Scrap parts were put back on the airplane for years and years. ibid. quality manager
It’s like it was just part of the business. ibid.
At Boeing, when you go to HR, you’re a target. ibid.
It’s like, does anybody care? ibid.
An Ethiopian flight has crashed just after take-off killing all 157 passengers and crew thought to be on board. ibid. UK news
Ethiopian Airlines Plane Is 2nd Boeing Max 8 to Crash in Months. ibid. The New York Times online headline
The Lion Air flight crashed off the coast of Indonesia with almost 200 people on board. ibid. news
An emergency order grounding all Boeing Max 8s and 9s. ibid. news
Boeing withheld crucial information from the FAA, from its customers and 737 Max pilots. ibid.
The Boeing lawyers saying that the families doen’t deserve compensation. ibid. comment
Finally, in December of 2019, Muilenburg is fired. ibid.
Approx Compensation 4.5 Years as CEO $128 Miilion. ibid.
Boeing Charged With 777 Max Fraud Conspiracy, Agrees to Pay Over $2.5B: DOJ. ibid. TV news banner
If after three years, you’ve been really really good, you get a clean slate. The CEO should have been prosecuted. ibid. engineer wife of plane crash victim
Until you hold people accountable, they will not change. ibid. comment
Our families, we meet every month online. We keep track of what Boeing’s safety failures have been. There are always more. ibid. father of plane crash victim
And there was a huge amount with brand-new aircraft. ibid.