Why managers can learn a lot from leaders like Napoleon - Pulis

As well as great military triumphs, I studied defeats too - they are as much a part of football management as victories, after all - and you can compare the organisational brilliance of Napoleon to the disaster of the Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of the Light Brigade.

One summer, I travelled out to Crimea to witness the scene of that tragic charge by the bravest of brave men.

Lord Raglan, the British commander-in-chief, was based on the high ground and could see everything in the Russian positions and the brigades.

His order to attack was ambiguous and although Lord Cardigan, who led the charge, questioned it, he still followed it through - leading to one of the most infamous military disasters in history.