PART ONE: What constitutes success for a Premier League manager?
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
Premier League Head Coach
You almost have to act like a politician now as a manager. Press conferences are streamed and they're put on YouTube. Fergie famously didn't speak English in his press conferences even when he got to quite a level of fluency because he didn't want his words twisted. I was actually at Everton against Aston Villa the weekend at Scotland. I was amazed at how almost abstract Sean Dies spoke as someone who gets very much painted by the media is just very straight talking, honest, trademark English head coach. He was speaking in these terms that were three, four, five sentences long. And I think back to sort of old, super Sunday games on Skywear were managers you
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