Why can't football managers have nice things?
There is a mad dichotomy in football, in that it is literally drenched in money, but any show of wealth is met with widespread derision. Fans want their clubs to spend tens of millions on transfers, but if the player in question arrives to the game in a swagged-out Ferrari, then he’s decadent and out of touch.
Managers have traditionally been spared the hate, but as they have gradually got younger, slicker and more cosmopolitan, they’ve started to catch more and more heat. Case in point: Bournemouth manager Scott Parker, who has been mocked from pillar to podcast this week for wearing a grey Thom Browne jacket for the opening match of the Premier League season. You think that’s a boorish show of wealth? You’re going to be shocked when you hear how much Liverpool paid for Darwin Nunez.
Well, Scott Parker made an effort, too, and it worked. Not only is he dressing well for a football manager, but he’s dressing well full stop. In addition to the TB blazer, there was a preppy tie with a little kite emblem at the centre – like something from– and a pair of Shannon derbies from Church’s; the best pair of smart shoes a person could own. He does the stealth-wealth thing, too, taking to the touchline in cashmere bombers and foul weather field jackets by Brunello Cucinelli.
Yes, the clothes are expensive, and they represent a sharp contrast in fortune between the people that do the game and the people that watch the game, but a match is Parker’s big moment. Should we blame him for dressing up for it? No, that’s just mean.In what may come as bad news to those who don’t like stripes on a football manager’s sleeve, Thom Browne has been gradually outfitting more and more ‘macho’ celebrities in skirts – skirts! – over the past couple of years.
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