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POCHETTINO: ENGLISH FOOTY’S SAVIOUR?

MATT JOY on the unlikely role an Argentinian is playing to help revive our game

Star-maker: Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino

FOLLOWING Southampton’s decision to dismiss the man with the whitest teeth in football, Nigel Adkins, in January 2013, a man with little managerial pedigree and no real link to English football was brought in.
Forty-one-year-old Mauricio Pochettino was presented as the new boss and he immediately promised positive football at St Mary’s.
Cynics began to criticise the decision almost immediately, citing the Argentinian’s poor communication abi...

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