Why wouldn’t Michael Beale believe in the wheels of fortune? One revolution took him from teaching futsal to children in a church hall in Bromley to coaching beside a Brazilian legend in the concrete jungle of Sao Paulo.
Another turned his career full circle, out of Liverpool one year and back the next, in time to join Steven Gerrard as he embarked upon his own managerial career at Rangers and Aston Villa.
Now Beale has returned to London, the city he calls home, where he failed to make the grade as a player at Charlton and coached in Chelsea’s academy, and has taken control at Queen’s Park Rangers, a club where he has family connections.