Name the manager, name the hallmarks

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Jose Mourinho.......players diving & wasting time. Feuds & spats in the background training ground... and them getting reported by the tabloids. Long postmatch TV interviews. "i sink we will do this, and i sink we will do that"


Arsene Wenger......taka-taka passing the ball relentlessly. Boring TV interviews.

Sir Alex Ferguson........a nightmare for any referee, a heavy dependence on Wingers putting in a cross from near the corner flag. Looking angry, chewing gum ( slowly when they are winning, and chewing quickly when they are losing )

what others ?
 
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Brian Clough. Interesting interviews and ultimate confidence in his own ability and at Forest able to enjoy a reputation for playing nice football despite having Larry Lloyd and Kenny Burns butchering anything that moved.
 
Alan Pardew
Slick hair. Sharp suits.
Touchline choreography.
The sideline dance.
Pineapple.
Confidence without evidence.
Big personality football.
Style before structure.
Motivation over organisation.

Neil Warnock
Colin.
Shithousery as a philosophy.
Referees are enemies of the state.
“This is my last job” = immunity card.
Touchline bans like loyalty badges.
Set pieces treated like military operations.
Football powered by anger, injustice, and conspiracy theories.
Every defeat is a scandal.
Every draw is robbery.
Every win is proof the world is against him.

Graham Taylor
Clipboards. Charts. Systems.
Cross it. Head it. Repeat.
“Do I not like that” face permanently activated.
England documentary trauma. Tactical stubbornness.

Dave Harry Bassett
Goalkeeper → striker → goal.
Midfield is a myth. Passing is optional.
Tactics written on a beer mat.
Profanity every other word.
Football that looks illegal but somehow works.
"Two Bob" dropped in to every other press conference.
 
Alan Pardew postmatch interview
"ah yes, my player did mess up in relation to 'insert whatever'...i will need to have a word with him back at the training ground"
 
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Brendan Rodgers……deluded, unbelievable so. Mainly back in his Liverpool days, there was a brilliant Twitter account called ‘deluded Brendan’ but we played his Leicester team off the park at selhurst a few seasons ago and his interview afterwards was unbelievable, even Leicester fans were laughing at him, him saying they controlled the game and didn’t deserve to lose.
But by then he was in a phrase I’ve used a lot this week ‘self preservation’ mode, as he was fighting for his job if I remember right
 
Carlo Ancelloti....
When the squad are under-performing, he uses half-time break to 'discuss, & garner the opinions of players' regarding the tactical changes that he has already planned to implement.

Roy Keane...
saying "That's not good enough" to everybody all the time. "i cannot believe yis would make such basic schoolboy errors". Bullying everybody about punctuality when returning to the team-bus after a motorway toilet break.
 
You haven't read the Anti-Football wiki piece.
 
Hangdog Harry. More hallmarks than a Royal Silver Anniversary Tea set.

During the game, sitting at the dugout, seemingly ignoring the game, with the body language like your ex-wife whenever she was asked to pay a Restaurant bill.

Squads that play like billy-oh until they achieve 40 points and then down-tools and go absent for the rest of the season.
Harry is another fella that referees dread having to work with. And lets not mention brown envelopes or Monaco Bank accounts.


www.theguardian.com

Harry Redknapp used Monaco account to evade tax on 'bungs', court told

Spurs manager denies charges relating to £4.5m transfer of Peter Crouch from Portsmouth to Aston Villa in 2002
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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Giovanni Trappatoni
Postmatch interview on RTE after another poor display from his Republic of Ireland squad. Journalist shoved a microphone into his overpaid Italian face and the Trap said this......

"Wir haben nicht gut gespielt, und das hat uns dieses Mal das Genick gebrochen."

He had all the acuity and mental plasticity of President Biden. One of the best paid managers on the Planet. And his tactics were about as predictable as an episode of Columbo ( the grumpy wealthy important bloke really did murder the victim as proven by the unseen guys down at the forensic lab).
Trappatoni Lived in Ireland for a decade and the cv.nt couldn't even order a cup of coffee in English.

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more Harry below.

 
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Arteta
Charming, smiling Mediterranean man when he gets his way
Swaying, teeth grinding, accosting when it doesn't go his way
"The Dark Arts"
Bottling it
Always outside the technical area
Trousers from Burton, an inch too short
Captain Black from Captain Scarlett
Crowding the Penalty Box

Fat Frank
Always seems to be taking a swig from his water bottle right after his team scores

Sean Dyche
Screeding
Gravel
Meat Pies
Hard tackles
Long balls
And the other long balls
Grit
Worm eating
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A Manager who inspired players to do the exact opposite of his own playing flair.
10 players behind the ball at all times. A Selhurst Book Club was opened on matchdays as the Selhurst atmosphere became like a library
Peter Taylor

Manager with a short tenure. as most of his expenditure went on the bar tabs. Could often be found pre-match slumped on a bar stool, muttering "I could have been someone. I could have been a contender"
George Burley
 
Eddie Howe. Looks like an earnest vicar who should be joining in with the ping pong at the youth club and wears baggy khaki shorts when leading hikes through the woods while swigging warm Robinson's Barley water from an army surplus canteen.

Matt Busby. Looked like he should be working with Sooty and Sweep.
 
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