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October 30, 2007
Beane to speak at "Future of Football" conference
Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland A's, will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Future of Football conference, which will be held on Tuesday, November 20 at the Marriott Hotel at Grosvenor Square in London. (Grosvenor Square? Do they decorate their rooms with bouquets of scarlet begonias? But I digress, and I suspect not many people will get that reference, anyway...)
Beane will kick off the second seminar of the day, "The American Way," in which he and his fellow panelists will consider Beane's methods, their success in baseball, and their applicability to soccer. For someone who admits to being a soccer neophyte, Beane will be hanging with some pretty impressive company — the panelists will include Sir Alex Ferguson, Lawrie Sanchez, Sam Allardyce, and Alan Curbishley, managers of Man United, Fulham, Newcastle, and West Ham, respectively, along with League Managers Association chairman Howard Wilkinson.
Posted by Jay at October 30, 2007 05:23 PM