Understanding the Role of the Football Manager in Britain and Ireland: A Weberian Approach
I‘ve always known about the difference that in UK football there are no head coaches of football clubs but there are managers. Maybe I had some notions why it was like this and what were the basic differences between being head coach or manager. But when I discovered this article, as a big fan of football and the English one especially, I really felt the need of fully understanding the role of the football manager in UK.
The organization of professional football (soccer) in the UK changed dramatically in the late twentieth century. Most professional football clubs have become increasingly modernized within increasing professionalization, commercialization …show more content…
Weber identified three ideal types of legitimate authority: traditional, charismatic and rational-legal. The authority of the team manager seems to be based on traditional forms of authoritarianism which is based on respect of age-old rules and customs, which involves loyalty to a personal master. This allows managers an unusually high degree of autonomy in defining their own role. However, as Weber pointed out, all forms of domination are ‘‘combinations, mixtures, adaptations, or modifications’’ of the charismatic, the traditional and the rational-legal …show more content…
I expected the author to describe specific functions and responsibilities of football manager in details, to name concrete managerial activities and basic differences in organization and structure of teams led by manager or head coach. Author just more or less theoretically described the background of the persistent traditional role of the manager in UK and its traditional elements. Unfortunately most of the brought information weren’t new or even in some way surprising for me. Nevertheless I really appreciated the theoretical information linked with the practical examples of some interviewed players’ or managers’ experience. Those short stories underlined existence of some mentioned traditional element of the football manager’s role and its importance and
I‘ve always known about the difference that in UK football there are no head coaches of football clubs but there are managers. Maybe I had some notions why it was like this and what were the basic differences between being head coach or manager. But when I discovered this article, as a big fan of football and the English one especially, I really felt the need of fully understanding the role of the football manager in UK.
The organization of professional football (soccer) in the UK changed dramatically in the late twentieth century. Most professional football clubs have become increasingly modernized within increasing professionalization, commercialization …show more content…
Weber identified three ideal types of legitimate authority: traditional, charismatic and rational-legal. The authority of the team manager seems to be based on traditional forms of authoritarianism which is based on respect of age-old rules and customs, which involves loyalty to a personal master. This allows managers an unusually high degree of autonomy in defining their own role. However, as Weber pointed out, all forms of domination are ‘‘combinations, mixtures, adaptations, or modifications’’ of the charismatic, the traditional and the rational-legal …show more content…
I expected the author to describe specific functions and responsibilities of football manager in details, to name concrete managerial activities and basic differences in organization and structure of teams led by manager or head coach. Author just more or less theoretically described the background of the persistent traditional role of the manager in UK and its traditional elements. Unfortunately most of the brought information weren’t new or even in some way surprising for me. Nevertheless I really appreciated the theoretical information linked with the practical examples of some interviewed players’ or managers’ experience. Those short stories underlined existence of some mentioned traditional element of the football manager’s role and its importance and