The Boot Room


Issue 01 August 2011


The Coach


In each edition of The Boot Room, coaches, managers and players come together to share their views on different issues from the game. First up: man- management and working with professional players.


I think the best coaches and managers that I’ve worked with treated the whole squad fairly. Brian Clough treated everyone fairly. Sometimes you weren’t particularly happy with it but it was fair and it was across the squad.


They talk about him and they talk about Shankly and these people were maybe the first lines of psychologists in their own way. They knew how to judge the mood of the individuals and the team and they also knew when to back- off.


Stuart Pearce England U21 manager


If you don’t have the man management skills to deal with situations there isn’t a course that can tell you what to do. You just have a gut feeling as to what is right and what is


wrong. You’ll get criticised by some quarters about making a decision and lauded by others.


You have to be happy that when you go home at night that you’ve treated everybody as fairly as you can and you can look in the mirror and know that you’ve done things right and proper.


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