RYAN FERGUSON says the cult of the manager has gone too far – and it’s time to concentrate on the football

IT MAY be difficult to imagine, but once upon a time we cared more about the actual football than the scandal that surrounds it.
In this digital age of immediate satisfaction, much of that romance has been lost. Football has morphed into a soap opera of giant conglomerates, egotistical millionaires and contrived controversy.
Where once our focus was on styles of play and overall results, it’s now shifted to individual celebrity and the upkeep of meaningless story...