**The Potter Paradox: Why West Ham’s Managerial Musical Chairs Resonate from Buenos Aires to Beijing** In the grand theater of global capitalism, where hedge fund managers bet on wheat futures while children starve and tech billionaires rocket to space for Instagram content, the appointment of Graham Potter at West Ham United might seem like small…
Thomas Tuchel: Football’s Last Cosmopolitan, Packing His Suitcase Again By A. Verlaine, International Desk, somewhere over the Atlantic The news pinged across time zones like a low-budget Bond film title card: Tuchel Leaves Bayern. In Tokyo salarymen smirked into their miso, in Lagos betting shops recalibrated odds, and in Washington think-tankers—who still believe “soccer” is…
**The Accidental Messiah: How Kieran McKenna Became Football’s Latest False Prophet** In the grand theater of professional football, where managers are hired to be fired and hope is peddled by the kilo, Kieran McKenna’s rise from Manchester United’s tactical analyst to Ipswich Town’s promotion messiah represents perhaps the most perfectly absurd narrative of our times….
