Thanks for drawing attention to Isaac Rose’s article in Tribune, ‘Against the Manchester Model’. I found it made for compelling reading. The phrase ‘hypocritical city’ struck me forcibly, and reminded me of the complex issues raised in David Conn’s ‘Richer than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up’. I just checked the Amazon site to make sure I’d got this book’s title right, and some of the review comments seem to illustrate the sort of moral complacency (or should it indeed be properly outed as hypocrisy?) which enables some football fans to enjoy their team’s huge success, while at the same time disapproving of but turning a blind eye to what many consider to be the morally questionable origins of the money on which the success is based. Isaac Rose’s article doesn’t mention football, but the analogy seems clear (at least to me). Should the sort of moral outrage currently being directed at FIFA and Qatar (both conveniently distant from us) be directed just as strongly (but more painfully, because close to home, and more practically, because it is our home) at the sell-out, not just of its football clubs, but Manchester itself to external entities interested ultimately in pride and profit, not in Manchester and Mancunians at all?
Read the article by Joe Zadeh, in Vice, about Rothbury in Northumberland, a place I now count as local to me. Beautifully written.
Not sure about Isaac Rose’s article on the redevelopment of Manchester as being ‘the empowerment of an organised and powerful class of property developers, investors and their allied industries’. Having worked for a couple I wouldn’t say that they were an organised and powerful class. Any sense of organisation between them is frankly risible. They have no common interest and are as far from being a class as it is possible to be.
"managers are “scared” of their heavily unionised workforce. “Track teams were scheduling in less work than they could do and also claiming overtime,” the source says. “There’s no good performance management.”" That smells of management trying to shift the blame.
Thanks for drawing attention to Isaac Rose’s article in Tribune, ‘Against the Manchester Model’. I found it made for compelling reading. The phrase ‘hypocritical city’ struck me forcibly, and reminded me of the complex issues raised in David Conn’s ‘Richer than God: Manchester City, Modern Football and Growing Up’. I just checked the Amazon site to make sure I’d got this book’s title right, and some of the review comments seem to illustrate the sort of moral complacency (or should it indeed be properly outed as hypocrisy?) which enables some football fans to enjoy their team’s huge success, while at the same time disapproving of but turning a blind eye to what many consider to be the morally questionable origins of the money on which the success is based. Isaac Rose’s article doesn’t mention football, but the analogy seems clear (at least to me). Should the sort of moral outrage currently being directed at FIFA and Qatar (both conveniently distant from us) be directed just as strongly (but more painfully, because close to home, and more practically, because it is our home) at the sell-out, not just of its football clubs, but Manchester itself to external entities interested ultimately in pride and profit, not in Manchester and Mancunians at all?
Read the article by Joe Zadeh, in Vice, about Rothbury in Northumberland, a place I now count as local to me. Beautifully written.
Not sure about Isaac Rose’s article on the redevelopment of Manchester as being ‘the empowerment of an organised and powerful class of property developers, investors and their allied industries’. Having worked for a couple I wouldn’t say that they were an organised and powerful class. Any sense of organisation between them is frankly risible. They have no common interest and are as far from being a class as it is possible to be.
"managers are “scared” of their heavily unionised workforce. “Track teams were scheduling in less work than they could do and also claiming overtime,” the source says. “There’s no good performance management.”" That smells of management trying to shift the blame.
'There's no good performance management' would be a weird quote for a manager to give a journalist...
Oh yeah! Feel a right pillock now :)
Haha.