Happy birthday Mauricio Pochettino - his best bits

[alex_front2]

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Behind Ronaldinho in pic above

For fairness all the other managers in their playing prime:

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Wow, Ranieri was a good looking as a younger guy.

Re game 2 March - Bet Spurs come back from 1-0 against West Ham right now

[In the Drunk Tank]

Happy Birthday

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I'm not a THFC fan, but I do like a bit of the ole Poch. :lovedup: :lovedup:

[Nicky91]

Happy Birthday, Mauricio

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[James]

I didn't know Mark Hughes' first name was Leslie.

[Christmas Dynasnow]

Came up against a better team and got beat


BOOOOOOOOOM

[James]

For fairness all the other managers in their playing prime:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcYfojqUMAAHcDE.jpg


Here is a ranking of managers as players, I came across the other day (minus one):

Ronald Koeman
Mark Hughes
Slaven Bilic
Mauricio Pochettino
Quique Flores
Alan Pardew
Manuel Pellegrini
Remi Garde
Roberto Martinez
Sam Allardyce
Eddie Howe
Steve McClaren
Louis van Gaal
Claudio Ranieri
Jürgen Klopp
Tony Pulis
Alex Neil
Guus Hiddink
Arsène Wenger


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/12045067/Premier-League-managers-how-they-rank-as-players.html

[Christmas Dynasnow]

poor prof wenger

[alex_front2]

I didn't know Mark Hughes' first name was Leslie.

IIRC Hughes in his first stint at Man U (before his return spell when Fergie was there ) he got really annoyed with players taking the p*SS out of his real name.

In May 2007, the then Blackburn manager Mark Hughes answers your questions on his playing and management career...

Why don’t you call yourself Leslie, your actual first name?

Colm Lynch, London

Because Mark’s my name, Leslie’s my father’s name. [Looking bemused, then smiling] No one has ever asked me that before! I was always going to be Mark Leslie Hughes, but maybe it sounded better or looked better on the birth certificate as Leslie Mark Hughes. That’s the only reason, but I was always going to be Mark.

Re: other managers as players, how cute does Eddie Howe look when he was a player (not that long ago to be fair but now he's quite hot) and it's obvious LVG has had a bad a nose job since he was a plwyer. :laugh:

[alex_front2]

Here is a ranking of managers as players, I came across the other day (minus one):

Ronald Koeman
Mark Hughes
Slaven Bilic
Mauricio Pochettino
Quique Flores
Alan Pardew
Manuel Pellegrini
Remi Garde
Roberto Martinez
Sam Allardyce
Eddie Howe
Steve McClaren
Louis van Gaal
Claudio Ranieri
Jürgen Klopp
Tony Pulis
Alex Neil
Guus Hiddink
Arsène Wenger


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/12045067/Premier-League-managers-how-they-rank-as-players.html

I think terrible players or non players often make really good - often better managers than good players eg Wenger, Roy Hodgson, Mourinho, Hiddink. Maybe their failure as a player has left them with something to prove, desperate for non playing football glory, maybe their careers are cut short or disappointing that they do other things eg go to university and get a bit more erudite and educated so they have more sophisticated tactics.

Quite a few of the top Portuguese sides deliberately hire non ex players or journey men/ poor ex players.

[Merry Mockmas]

Came up against a better team and got beat


BOOOOOOOOOM

I'm afraid that we was playing Hull this week.:dance:

[Cherry Christmas]

Happy Birthday

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