To browse Academia. The autobiography of Alex Ferguson offers a deep insight into his life, career, and the experiences that shaped him both personally and professionally. Through anecdotes, reflections, and tributes to mentors and colleagues, Ferguson shares pivotal moments from his storied tenure in football, providing readers with lessons in leadership, resilience, and the intricacies of team dynamics.
This paper written in was one of the first studies to critically look at the governance relationships in European football. We analysed the way a sport governing body responds to the pressures of a lobby group through the example of UEFA and G and proposed a recommendation for the better cooperate and governance of European football.
Based on stakeholder analysis — national associations, national leagues, the whole spectrum of clubs, G and UEFA - we identified the divergent perspectives in areas such as competition, revenue sharing or representation and compared different cases of stakeholder management across several sports.
At the time in , G and UEFA had tried to promote their own interests, but in the end alienating their counterparts and failing to conclude a satisfactory compromise. Based on this paradox, we elaborated a new model of organisation for European football with a particular focus on the way professional football — at club and national level — is managed within UEFA. The success of such a model depends on a proactive attitude from the governing bodies and positive feedback from the other stakeholders.
Thus, no matter how successful the new organisational model could be, all stakeholders need first to perceive the utility of implementing such a reform and agree on the steps to be taken toward its implementation. This volume critically engages with the question of cultural difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of India and Europe. It looks at certain essential European categories of learning such as art, nature, the human, literature, relation, philosophy, and the humanities and analyses texts from Sanskrit language through Telugu resources to argue that categories like prakriti, loka, jati, dharma, karma, sahitya, and kala cannot be conflated with conceptual formations such as nature, world, caste, religion, sanctioned action, literature, and art, respectively.
