A Soccer Team I Hate Has a Philosophy I Love

There’s something about how Sir Alex Ferguson set out Manchester United to play games back in the day. It never felt serious or too tactical like with other managers. His philosophy didn’t have some quirky label. To me, it just felt like this: first and foremost, have fun and enjoy the game.

It’s an approach I wish my own team would adopt because I think we’d win more games. Ole Gunnar Solskjær, a former player of Ferguson has taken the managerial position at United and has reinstalled “the United way,” which as I see it is just playing for fun. There’s a natural intensity that comes out, with the intention to score goals and defend cleanly.

Just take a look at their record at the start of this season and compare it to when Solskjær took over. It’s like it’s a completely different team. Not only are they more efficient at the front, the back and the middle, it’s easy on the eyes. Everyone that watches the English Premier League and isn’t a Manchester United fan is going to be scared shitless if they keep this up.

When I adopt this in my own life, my word is there a difference. First of all, I feel different. I don’t take things too seriously. I roll with the punches. Secondly, I take “risks”. I put risks in quotes because in the old mindset I saw that taking action was almost always risky, because you never knew what…