“The secrets of Venables’ success as a coach are not simple, but they are straightforward. He treats his players well, he gets them to enjoy themselves and, most profitably of all, he engages their minds.”

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/sep/02/sport.comment1

John Gregory: He occupied your brain. Everything he did was so imaginative. In the four years I was with him, he rarely repeated coaching sessions. There was always something new, and it made going to work feel exciting. And he wasn’t a dictator. It wasn’t ‘my way or no way’. He’d throw ideas back to you and invite you to have your say.

And yet the powers that be, seems to think that Qatar Sports Investments and privately owned Super clubs is the best model for the future of the game.

But do they condemn Hamas ? /S

So Enrique Cerezo would support a UEFA wide wage ceiling ?

It could be something like 50 % of the revenue of the 40 or so, top grossing football clubs.

Maradona on his meeting with John Paul II

“Yes, I did argue with the Pope. I argued with him because I’ve been to the Vatican and seen the gold ceilings. And then I hear the Pope saying that the Church was concerned about poor kids. So? Sell the ceilings, mate! Do something!”

From Yo Soy el Diego

But he was optimistic about Bergoglio

“The Vatican, for me, is a lie because instead of giving to people it takes away. All popes have done this and I don’t want him to do it,”

“I am disappointed with the Vatican but I believe in you because you are making changes and pointing us towards more human things, things that I would like to see in the Church,”

https://catholicherald.co.uk/maradona-urges-pope-francis-to-reform-the-vatican/