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Sir Alex – the best headteacher there never was

Senior leadership Teaching staff
Headteachers need the dark arts too – those menacing pauses, that blank, unforgiving gaze and that threat of an erratic and incendiary rage. The dreaded Hairdryer. I could never do that stuff. I could never make Dave Mania quake in his boots. I wish I cou

QPR are winning 1-0 after 90 minutes. Fergie waves his watch at the stadium. The referee is now obliged to play “Fergie time” – until as long as it takes for United to score. We get to 97 minutes. The tension is intolerable.

“Hurry up. Ref! I’m missing Casualty,” observes a Hoops fan wittily. How we laugh. Not for long. Giggs crosses to Cantona, who scores, tweaks his collar and mocks us distraught fans. The referee can blow for time, Fergie can celebrate and we’re all doomed to permanent oblivion and the likes of Mr Harold Redknapp. My little daughters weep copiously all the way home.

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