Slade did a four-year sport science degree.

Leyton Orient v Arsenal: Russell Slade disappointed by 'lack of respect' shown in Olympic Stadium plans
Alone on bleak winter days in his apartment at the Matchroom Stadium, Russell Slade could be forgiven a feeling of isolation

Daily Telegraph

By Oliver Brown
19 Feb 2011

This is not simply because the Leyton Orient manager’s wife, Lisa, and his four children are living more than 200 miles away in Scarborough.
It arises from the view that his little pied-à-terre affords of the hulking Olympic Stadium, whose future housing of East End rivals West Ham could threaten the very future of the club he has helped galvanise.
“Orient is a 130-year-old ‘family’ club — it needs to be considered in anything that happens,” Slade says, with a note of ruefulness.
“I don’t think one of the big boys, like West Ham, should come and bulldoze over us like we’re a League One club and we don’t matter. We do matter, to a lot of people.”
That connection with the community will be vividly illustrated this on Sunday, when 6,000 fans gather on Brisbane Road to host North London nobility, in the form of Barcelona-beating Arsenal.

But what should be a cause for untrammelled celebration is haunted by uncertainty, as Orient’s disciples contemplate the West Ham move and the encroachment it would herald upon their natural heartlands of Leyton and Stratford.
Barry Hearn, the Orient chairman and a man of sunny predisposition, is in no doubt. The relocation of West Ham, a relative giant, to a site within a mile of a far smaller ground could put his cherished club out of business.
The offer by Karren Brady, the West Ham vice-chairman, of free or discounted admission for families — all for the price of a season ticket — scarcely aids his cause. Children, he knows, are far more likely to be enticed by the promise of Premier League football that the neighbours can provide.
“I am staggered by the lack of respect shown to Leyton Orient,” Hearn says.
“It seems to me that we have been completely ignored.” Such status anxiety is sharpened by an ironic juxtaposition in the fixture list, where the Arsenal showpiece is followed barely 24 hours later by West Ham’s fifth-round match at home to Burnley on Monday night.
It is a reflection of Hearn’s ingrained optimism that, in these straitened times, he can look with bullishness towards the Arsenal game and describe Slade as “the best manager in the world”.
Slade himself acknowledges that in a career spanning over 400 games, he has never experienced a dynamic quite like the one he enjoys with Orient’s frank, fast-talking chairman.
“It’s a lonely place, sometimes, for the manager to be the motivator,” the 50 year-old says. “Who’s going to pick the manager up on a Sunday morning, after we’ve been beaten 5-0 at Brighton? To be fair to Barry, we were second from bottom at the start of the season and he was still my No 1 fan. As long as we’re not in a relegation scrap, he’ll be more than happy.
“He’s a very positive person, and that helps me. When somebody has that belief in you, and knows that the team has potential, it makes you roll your sleeves up.”
Fittingly for the chaos he may yet confront at Orient, the avuncular Slade is a self-confessed “firefighter”. He forged this reputation at Scarborough, whom he saved from relegation in his first season in 2001, before reaching the League Two and League One play-off finals with Grimsby, then Yeovil.
When his intervention last year ensured Orient’s survival in the third tier, Hearn had little hesitation in placing him on a two-year contract.
A perpetual enthusiast for the game, Slade never progressed further as a player than Notts County’s reserves. He could have entered football earlier, aged 18, but chose instead to invest his energies in a four-year sport science degree.
On Sunday he meets the trailblazer of the cerebral route into management — namely, that famed alumnus of Strasbourg University’s economics course, Arsène Wenger.
“There are two sides, aren’t there? There’s the coaching, and then there’s the management of people. Wenger does that exceptionally well, and that’s something I try to pride myself on.”
Slade, having earned his first coaching badge at 19, is still fascinated by his art. “Characters in the changing room come from different backgrounds now. It’s not like how it used to be in the North-East, where a miner would pop out and you would have yourself a player. These are not the sort of players you can give a global ---------- to, and expect them to take it.
Sometimes you have to drag a player to one side, rather than talk to him in front of the group, for fear of embarrassing him. If you give players one negative you have to give them three positives as well.”
Asked if he believes players have become soft in their attitude, Slade replies: “I do, yeah.”
He had better disabuse his charges of any flakiness to face Arsenal, and quickly. At Orient, whether in the centre circle or the boardroom, this is a time for toughness.

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

Allan, Who? ?

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

Allan, Who? ?

in one of the Craig bellamy threads

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

Allan, Who? ?

in one of the Craig bellamy threads

Was the fan saying it or Bellamy say ing it?

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

Allan, Who? ?

in one of the Craig bellamy threads

Was the fan saying it or Bellamy say ing it?

both

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

Allan, Who? ?

in one of the Craig bellamy threads

Was the fan saying it or Bellamy say ing it?

both

Wez, Well it looks like they are both wrong then.

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

Allan, Who? ?

in one of the Craig bellamy threads

Was the fan saying it or Bellamy say ing it?

both

Wez, Well it looks like they are both wrong then.

Are they? Studying a sport degree and having a licence to be manager are two very different things. Cant find that Slade has any badges outside licence A. He certainly dosent seem to have a Pro licence, and thats a requirement, at least in the premier league isnt it? Maybe i overlooked him and he is to be found in there somewhere..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ma ... ro_Licence

Since when does possessing a sports science degree qualify you to manage a football club? A physiotherapist or fitness conditioning coach maybe but definitely not a manager. Someone with a business degree (knows how to handle the press, knows how to manage people, knows how to motivate, knows how to play the markets) is far more suited than anyone with a sports science degree. Some of the nonsense spouted on here is laughable.

Sport science degree looks good on paper but you don't play football on paper.

Sport science degree looks good on paper but you don't play football on paper.

Depends where from. A lot of people would regard it as a soft/mickey mouse degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_degrees

Since when does possessing a sports science degree qualify you to manage a football club? A physiotherapist or fitness conditioning coach maybe but definitely not a manager. Someone with a business degree (knows how to handle the press, knows how to manage people, knows how to motivate, knows how to play the markets) is far more suited than anyone with a sports science degree. Some of the nonsense spouted on here is laughable.

I have to agree, someone very close to me whom I shall not name has a Sports Science degree, if you do not go down the route of becoming a PE teacher, then it has little relevance to the majority of job opportunities

I think what Bellamy said about Slade is nonsense.

There was certain people on here saying Slade had no qualifications to manage a football club ?

Allan, Who? ?

in one of the Craig bellamy threads

Was the fan saying it or Bellamy say ing it?

both

Wez, Well it looks like they are both wrong then.

Are they? Studying a sport degree and having a licence to be manager are two very different things. Cant find that Slade has any badges outside licence A. He certainly dosent seem to have a Pro licence, and thats a requirement, at least in the premier league isnt it? Maybe i overlooked him and he is to be found in there somewhere..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ma ... ro_Licence

Thats fair enough, it all seems very strange?

I thought you needed coaching badges or is that just the Premier League?

Sport science degree looks good on paper but you don't play football on paper.

Depends where from. A lot of people would regard it as a soft/mickey mouse degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_degrees

And YOUR degree is....????

its not a degree that prepares you to be a football manager though?

what matters is experience as a footballer, and the pro licence. the degree is almost irrelevant other than giving him a background knowledge of sport science.

Couldn't care what qualifications he has, just wish he could manage

Couldn't care what qualifications he has, just wish he could manage

Agree

Sport science degree looks good on paper but you don't play football on paper.

Depends where from. A lot of people would regard it as a soft/mickey mouse degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_degrees

And YOUR degree is....????

BSc (Hons) Internet Computing & Systems Administration.

http://www.onlinedegrees.com/degree360/ ... -2015.html
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersa ... oX#image=4

Sport science degree looks good on paper but you don't play football on paper.

Depends where from. A lot of people would regard it as a soft/mickey mouse degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_degrees

And YOUR degree is....????

BSc (Hons) Internet Computing & Systems Administration.

http://www.onlinedegrees.com/degree360/ ... -2015.html
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersa ... oX#image=4

wow you're my hero, so employable

You can have any kind of degree but unless you have people skills then you are fucked in a job where you relay a lot on others to do a good job for you. Eg: a football manager

He also done a course on colouring without going over the lines