The Gaffer: The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager

Author: Warnock, Neil

Autobiography: sport

Published on 10 April 2014 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Book Publishing) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 384 pages
198 x 130 x 25 | 272g

Ever wondered how a transfer deal is done? What a manager says during his pre-match team-talk? What he screams from the techincal area? What goes on in training sesions, 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 read The Gaffer.