Musical maestros and football managers have more in common than you think

You don’t have to be a follower of Liverpool Football Club, or football at all, to spot the difference. Two months ago the Reds were running about headless as a newly wrung chook; today they are putting the fear of perdition into the best teams in the land.

Or take Leicester City.

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TaggedAlex Ferguson, Andris Nelsons, Barenboim, Bayreuth Festival, Berlin Phil, Christian Thielemann, Classical music, Conducting, Dudamel, Football, Haitink, James Levine, José Mourinho, Karajan, Kirill Petrenko, La Scala, Leicester City, Louis van Gaal, LSO, Man United, Pep Guardiola, Riccardo Chailly, Roy Hodgson, Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev

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Musical maestros and football managers have more in common than you think

The parallels are pervasive but conductors earn proportionately more - often as much as half an orchestra - and they hang on for years after their sell-by-date

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