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The Gaffer: The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager
- Narrated by: Neil Warnock
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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Publisher's Summary
For the very first time, and straight from the horse's mouth, a top manager's intriguing insights into the daily trials and tribulations, the joyous peaks and soul-destroying troughs of life as a football 'gaffer'. Ever wondered how a transfer deal is done? What a manager says during his pre-match team-talk? What he screams from the technical area? What goes on in training sessions, and on those long away trips? How a manager carefully builds a team, and what he does when the planning is disrupted by injuries? How he lifts a team after a crushing defeat, and keeps their feet on the ground after a resounding victory? How the man in charge handles the ever-present danger of getting sacked in the ultimate results business?
In short, how one of today's top professional footballer managers somehow copes with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, with having to live, breathe and sleep football 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? Then listen to the The Gaffer.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-11-2021
A real Insight
A great read with some fantastic true accounts of what it is like being a former player, manager, family man & juggling everything thrown at you, love it & reccommend
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- Anonymous User
- 08-12-2022
Don’t think about it, just get it!!
Fantastic book Neil, great insight into the pressures of a high level manager. But also an inspirational book for a young coach like myself. Thanks
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- Anonymous User
- 10-09-2020
Brilliant
First audio book I have listened to. It was great to hear from an amazing coach with a very interesting in-site. An old school manager coaching in the modern age. I look forward to following his progress at Middlesbrough this season.
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- melanie
- 28-01-2023
The gaffer only one
Fantastic well enjoyable
Neil Warnock he is the gaffer the one and only great book
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