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Well, if you work for a firm that sells photocopiers, pedal bins or ceramic mugs, then that may well be the case. However, if you're sitting on a 3 year contract with a transfer valuation to your employers of circa £55m....maybe not so much.

Sounds painful though

Indeed. The game is still littered with great players = shit managers. Famously Wenger and Mourinho did f-all as players, but because of their intelligence and charisma they managed to bypass that and carve out amazing managerial careers. You do need incredible strength of personality, ego and...

I can well imagine there is an element of football snobbery from players who have played at the highest levels, but who then find themselves in a dressing room with some bloke who only ever played at the arse end of the football league, and who's managerial track record takes in Luton and a...

Well he died on his arse when he stepped up to manage a (newly relegated) Stoke didn't he. I think he'll have his work cut out in a PL dressing room where there will be an element of "Nathan who ?", not unlike at Chelsea now, but lower down the scale. He doesn't have much of a CV to fall back...