Happy birthday Mauricio Pochettino - his best bits
 

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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

Happy Birthday

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

Happy Birthday, Mauricio

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

Came up against a better team and got beat


BOOOOOOOOOM

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

1. Ronald Koeman
2. Mark Hughes
3. Slaven Bilic
4. Mauricio Pochettino
5. Quique Flores
6. Alan Pardew
7. Manuel Pellegrini
8. Remi Garde
9. Roberto Martinez
10. Sam Allardyce
11. Eddie Howe
12. Steve McClaren
13. Louis van Gaal
14. Claudio Ranieri
15. Jürgen Klopp
16. Tony Pulis
17. Alex Neil
18. Guus Hiddink
19. Arsène Wenger

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...s-players.html

poor prof wenger

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.

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:

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.

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

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