Incredibly well paid but what a stressful job, with the only holiday a couple of weeks each summer, before squad building then preseason. The players that care talk about their weekends being miserable after a defeat, that must be magnified for managers who also take the flak.
Nothing to do with football, but I like Germans. They don’t have much to have permanent chip about.
You’ve just described Tyke Wnkr Warnock and Fergie.
A smallish club (albeit with a TB-like owner), last in the top flight in 1972 and near the bottom of the Championship, until Wagner gave them two seasons in the PL. Definitely a large positive in his CV.
Plus he wound up sore loser Garry Monk.
Winstanley, plus CH really is a superior “smart fox”.
Few call these days for CH to emulate the gung-ho football of Hudd in the first half of last season. CH is a master in chiselling out vital points.
5live absolutely certain that he wasn’t sacked. He went to Hoyle to say he wanted to leave at the end of this season, wanting a break from football. Then it was negotiated to now. A rare genuine “by mutual consent”.
They’re as good as down with their fixtures and squad, so they’re looking at...