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WHERE’S THE PASSION IN DEAR OLD ROY?

JAMES OWENS just can’t get excited about the new Three Lions boss

WATCHING Ricky Tomlinson as the haphazard, heart-on-sleeve gaffer he portrayed in the 2001 football comedy ‘Mike Bassett: England Manager’, you got the sense that there was a lot of the man in the manager.
As if to confirm the suspicion, Tomlinson declared that his idea of a good manager was a man with “passion” rather than coaching badges and PHDs when speaking to Liverpool FC’s inhouse television channel about his lifelong support for the Merseyside club in 2008.
So it feels like a s...

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