READ ‘EM AND DON’T WEEP, WAYNE!
After a bad loss, Millers boss Warne has the books to help Rooney through any future managerial crisis
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 had reverted to type and played 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 in dire trouble going into tomorrow night’s game with promotionchasing Bournemouth. Derby have little money, did not pay their players their full wages last month and have been waiting since October for a £60million takeover to be completed.
The club is on the edge of crisis. Welcome to management Wazza.
“I spoke to Wayne before the game,” revealed Rotherham manager Paul Warne. “I congratulated him on getting the job and told him about a book he needs to read.
“The book is called Living On A Volcano. It’s a brilliant book.
“As a football manager it’s bleak, very hard at times. There’s imposter syndrome when you don’t think you are as good as others think you are and you are paranoid at times.
“But when you read in the book Arsene Wenger 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 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.
“If you are interviewing a manager after a defeat and he’s looking depressed and you are thinking ‘F ****** hell mate, you ain’t got that much wrong, you will get into your beautiful car and drive home to your massive house’ then read the book. You might empathise a bit more.”
Warne, 47, played the bulk of his career in Rotherham’s midfield and then became a fitness coach at the club.
He stepped up as caretaker manager when Kenny Jackett left five years ago and has been there since as Rotherham have dodged between League One and the Championship.
Jamie Lindsay’s winner was only Rotherham’s second away victory all season and gives them hope of keeping Derby beneath them and staying up.
“There’s another book, Carlo Ancelotti’s Quiet Leadership,” added Warne. “He’s different to everyone else, he’s not a shouter or screamer, his book is pretty unique.” So there you go Wayne, have a read.
DERBY: 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
ROTHERHAM: Blackman 7, A. MacDonald 6, Ihiekwe 6, Wood 6, Olosunde 6, Wiles 6, Lindsay 7, Barlaser 7, Harding 6 (Roberston, 90), Crooks 6, Smith 6 (Ladapo 80, 5)
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GRAEME SHINNIE (DERBY)