How Phil and Gary Neville embrace the Woody Allen route to management | Tim Adams

Hard work lies at the heart of their careers but they might also have what it takes to make it as managers The national obsession with football managers, never more crazed than in the past fortnight, is the popular expression of the cult of leadership that keeps business schools busy and airport bookshelves full. Like corporate CEOs, the occupants of technical areas are examined exhaustively for those seven (or five, or 12) highly effective habits that could ensure competitive advantage (though,...