FM Files EP05 - The Match Football Manager Files

Deep insights into the role and life of a modern football manager, with contributions from some of the biggest names in the business.

Part Five – The Match

You’ve built your squad, settled upon your tactics and got everything working like clockwork. Now it’s time to put it all into effect… it’s matchday.

By all accounts, this is the hardest part of football management. You’ve done everything you can, but now the players have crossed the white line it’s pretty much all out of your control.

What's it like on the touchline, with 50,00 people either singing your name or baying for your blood? What can you do in those few minutes where you have the players’ undivided attention at half time? And when the game is won or lost (or, indeed, drawn) how easy is it to move on?

Of course we’ll never really know until we’ve tried it for ourselves, but Iain Macintosh takes us as close to the touchline as humanly possible in the company of a number of men who’ve been there and done it… Garry Monk, Alex McLeish, Stuart Pearce, Slaven Bilic, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Chris Powell.

Written and presented by Iain Macintosh
Produced by Ben Green
A Muddy Knees Production
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