I for one doubt it's a coincidence that the only two teams in the Premier League with genuine sporting directors (or technical directors or directors of football, if you like) are the ones who have appeared the most prepared, structured and with clear strategies in their work in the summer transfer market.
The fantasy-tinged elements can double down, but if person-to-person interactions cease feeling genuine the director was always going to find himself in trouble.
He is regarded by those who work with him as a genuine actors' director, a gentle source of encouragement who does not crowd the rehearsal room with his own ego.
"His message was genuine," said Brian Stumpf, director of football for Student Sports, which operates the Elite 11 camps.
Mitchell, who turns 50 this September, has been hailed as the closest thing British theatre has to a genuine auteur: a director with a strong, uncompromising vision of how theatre should be.
Furthermore, the coincidence is genuine - Patrick Stettler, director of The Night Listener, assures me: 'I know it's amazing how it fits the part, but I swear I cast Toni long before I knew.' Needless to say, when I meet Collette, in the boardroom of a Manhattan hotel - an oddly corporate setting, but the only muzak-free place we could find - I have no end of questions on the subject.
"This looks like a genuine fire," said Mr. Kleinschmidt, director of the Zaatari camp.
Her fascination with traveling and international affairs, in contrast to her husband, is genuine, said José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director for Human Rights Watch.
That's due in part to "genuine intellectual interest," Louis Putterman, director of undergraduate studies in the economics department, told the newspaper.
It was rumoured to be a genuine snuff film: the director Ruggero Deodato was arrested and charged with filming actors being killed (he was later cleared).
