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WORDS OF WISDOM?

NEIL COTTON looks at the age-old tradition of managers’ notes and explains why they’ve got something valuable to offer, especially when they go off-message

ARRIVING at a football ground in advance of kick-off, there are a few options for passing the time until kickoff – watching the teams warm up, listening to the up-tempo motivational music pumped out by the tannoy system, observing the antics of the furry team mascot as it gambols around the sidelines, or reading the manager’s programme notes.
Managers’ notes are something of a football institution, but...

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