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It’s been a while since I posted a football related article at Linked In but today’s news that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been fired as manager of Manchester United and speculation over his successor provides a rare opportunity.

It’s not just that there haven’t been opportunities to comment on football related events that has reduced my attention. I make it perfectly clear on the homepage of Pispascana.com exactly where I stand. There are now many articles at Pispascana News more relevant to the time.

As a kid I loved playing football even though it often caused great pain both physical and psychological. I’m certain I wasn’t alone there. During my lifetime I've watched ‘the beautiful game’ as it is sometimes referred to, hijacked by corporate ugliness. Football joined all the mass participation activities that are fundamentally centres for the establishment to extract every last possible drop of substance from working people.

Manchester United is a hub of this activity in the city that gave us the Peterloo Massacre. In the 1970’s this leader among sport clubs lacked the nous to guide one of the most talented players of all time away from self-destruction. My experience over the last few years shows me that people within the clubs restrict potential by their unwillingness to step beyond the most conservative approaches.

Now this ‘super club’ is faced with a recruitment problem that if today’s newspaper reports are believable will likely become another failure.

For those unfamiliar with the background, Manchester United is one of Britain’s leading football clubs. They became legendary in the sport after the aircraft transporting the team crashed at Munich in 1958 with the loss of 23 people including 11 team members.

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They resurrected to become the first English club to win the European Cup in 1968 but during the 1970’s and 80’s United’s achievement fell way short of arch rivals Liverpool Football Club. Their fortunes changed again in 1986 with the appointment of Scotsman, Alex Ferguson as manager. After several difficult years Ferguson eventually began to transform results and by the time of his retirement in 2013, he had become one of the most successful football club managers.

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This was obviously going to be a hard act to follow and with hindsight this is exactly the case. Solskjaer a former player under Ferguson, is the 4th manager since 2013. None have come close to emulating the now knighted Sir Alex. ????

Nowadays there is a relatively small group of what could be termed super club managers. Right now, they are all with few exceptions in employment. One of them, Italian Antonio Conte was appointed manager of London Club Tottenham Hotspur less than a month ago. The candidate now being linked with United in today’s newspaper stories is former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane. Before we analyse Zinedine’s planetary potential in Manchester it is reported that the former French international superstar does not speak English. This of course is not the worst thing ever but will almost inevitably be an inconvenience from time to time.

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Theoretically a plus would be his working relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo. Like Zidane, Ronaldo is one of the greatest players in football history. Ronaldo played for United early in his career and re-joined the club last summer. Now near the end of his playing days he was a huge contributor to the Madrid team that Zidane managed to 3 European Cup Final victories.

It was possible to obtain Zidane’s birth time so astrological analysis is very precise. There is no huge change from his astrology in Madrid to Manchester because they are close to the same longitude. There are however two influences on the latitude of Manchester not present in Madrid that, I suspect would ensure Zidane’s career in Manchester to be a failure.

Closest is ♂?Mars Neptune All things considered this may be the most undesirable place to be as here the aggression of Mars is mixed with the uncertainty of Neptune. There may be illness including venereal disease, unprovoked attacks by strangers, addiction to drugs and sensuality seems to take all sorts of unpleasant and weird forms. Paranoia and neurosis may base themselves on an essentially but subtly hostile environment. Fears have a nasty way of coming true here and victimization by society or its lower elements may occur. This is in part because of aspirations all out of proportion with reality and cowardice that attracts parasites. In unusual cases there may be non-violent victory, implementation of ideals or even success through dancing but for most of us it is like fighting a battle underwater, impossible to make any sort of connection or even to see what you are fighting against. Sex murders, executions and other sordid realities seem to constantly intrude under this combination and there is appetite for sensationalism and the bizarre. If either of the planets occupies the Descendant you may be the object of attack humiliation or ridicule.

Secondly, ??Saturn Uranus Here is where conflict between habits and principles are experienced and where timing saves the day from the consequences of a defiant attitude and extreme individualism. It is not a place for those who seek trivial pleasure from life as here you become personally involved in social struggle, labour movements, revolts, future shock and culture interface. Advance is accomplished with some difficulty and you try to obtain by foul means what could easily have been by fair. The mind is inflexible, there is unwillingness to share and aversion to sentimentality leads to a virtuous self-image that is willing to cut off its nose to spite its face. The best from future and past can be blended into career or other life patterns though there is danger in being inhibited by accomplishments when the time to change comes. You are apt to be conscious of great social cycles but misunderstood and even ostracized in your time and your very existence poses a threat to the establishment that must change itself or change you. Constant dissatisfaction, erratic health, inconstancy, love of drastic action that leaves you open to accidental injury are all dangers of this location. ?

Lovely stuff! Some of you might be thinking that Zidane should be OK in Britain given that he scored one of the great European Cup winning goals at Hampden Park, Glasgow in 2002. Not the case. The planetary influences on the latitude of Glasgow are less problematic for Zidane than in Manchester. ???

Let’s put it this way, a few years ago I wrote an article, here, predicting some uncertainty for Eden Hazard when he was just about to commit himself to join Real Madrid after a highly successful period with Chelsea Football Club in London. It is perhaps harsh to say his time at Madrid has been a complete disaster but it certainly hasn’t come close to the level of success he experienced in London. The astrological changes Eden Hazard encountered in Madrid that in my opinion are the reason behind his current life circumstances are not in my opinion as difficult as those that would face Zidane in Manchester. All that said whatever happens in these situations a small number of people make a large amount of money while the fans suffer. Same as it ever was. My observations however astute did not reach Eden Hazard, his agent, or Real representatives and the same will likely occur in any deal involving a new Manchester United manager.

Before United appointed Ole Solskjaer as manager the club signed an English international defender whose name is Harry Maguire. I wrote about this in a previous article, here, where I stated that as a result of his move from Leicester to Manchester he had lost what I consider to be one of the most subtle and intelligent of all planetary influences, a combination of Mercury and Uranus. Can you imagine, there is a manager currently working in the English Premiership who has this influence mildly in Manchester but not at his present club. He is probably available.

I have also written ad nauseum at Linked In about the presence of French International Paul Pogba at Manchester United, here, here & here. Potentially one of the top football players in the world at this moment but in Manchester it doesn’t work, no matter what it might be, it won’t work. The planets don’t allow it! Is it possible to feel sorrow for any of the parties? Maybe the suffering fans? You would have thought that by now somebody would have recognised there is a problem. In years gone by when money was less of a priority, Paul Pogba would probably have moved on by now, of course 50 years ago Frenchmen didn’t play in the English league. Oo la la!