READ IT & WEEP
Book tip for beaten Rooney
BEFORE a game that ended in frustration, disappointment and anger for him, Wayne Rooney was advised to read a book.
Rooney’s first day as a retired player and fully fledged manager did not go well.
The team he coaxed towards moving clear of Championship relegation as interim boss reverted to type, playing as badly as they did for the sacked Phillip Cocu.
Derby were awful, losing to a side that rarely wins away.
It leaves the Rams second from bottom going into tomorrow night’s home game with promotion-chasing Bournemouth.
The club have little money, did not pay players their full wages last month and have been waiting since October for a £60million takeover to be completed.
Derby are on the edge of crisis. Welcome to management,Wazza.
“I spoke to Wayne before the game,” said Rotherham manager Paul Warne. “I told him he needs to read Living On The Volcano. It’s a brilliant book.There are loads of different managers in it. It was suggested it would be a good read for me, and I loved it.
“As a football manager it’s bleak at times. There’s imposter syndrome when you don’t think you’re as good as others think you are, and you’re paranoid at times.
“But when you read in the book that Arsene Wenger felt that and Sir Alex Ferguson felt that, it tells you everyone gets this.
“It sort of eases the pain and it definitely helped me when I first took over at Rotherham because I found it brutal.
“In fairness to Wayne since he took over at Derby, even in temporary charge, he’s turned it round, had some great results and he’s probably thinking, ‘This ain’t as bad as everyone makes out’. But you don’t win every week and it is a difficult job.”
Jamie Lindsay’s 86th-minute close-range strike sealed only Rotherham’s second away victory this term and gives them hope of keeping Derby beneath them and staying up.
“There is another book, Carlo Ancelotti’s book, Quiet Leadership,” said Warne, 47, who has been in charge for five years. “He’s saying how he’s different to everyone else, he’s not a shouter and a screamer, all that oldschoolness, his book is pretty unique.”
So there you go Wayne. Living On The Volcano and Quiet Leadership. They are both on Amazon. Have a read.
Roos 6; Byrne 6, Wisdom 6, Clarke 7, Buchanan 6; Shinnie 8 (Sibley, 83), Bielik 6 (Bird 66, 5), Knight 6; Waghorn 6, Kazim-Richards 6, Jozwiak 6.
Blackman 7; A MacDonald 6, Ihiekwe 6, Wood 6; Olosunde 6, Wiles 6, Lindsay 7, Barlaser 7, Harding 6 (Robertson, 90); Crooks 6; Smith 6 (Ladapo 80). Lindsay 86.