| Player managers 00:20 - Jan 11 with 3501 views | northampton_hoop |
Remember those days. I think Ray Wilkins did a bit. Will we ever see such a thing again? | | | |  |
| Player managers on 00:46 - Jan 11 with 3455 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Was quite the fad at one time.
There is a Brian Laws episode on Undr The Cosh where he talks about it.
Andy Hessenthaler for Gillingham springs to mind. Never failed to pick himself. | | | |
| Player managers on 00:55 - Jan 11 with 3447 views | LowerloftLad |
Ainsworth played for Wycombe as player-manager for a short period. | |
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| Player managers on 00:56 - Jan 11 with 3438 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
And us for one game! | | | |
| Player managers on 05:18 - Jan 11 with 3326 views | HAYESBOY |
Rooney is the last one I can think of. | |
| Smells like a trout farm in here |
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| Player managers on 06:32 - Jan 11 with 3279 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Ronaldo tried playing and managing Portugal at the WC.
Until the actual manager stepped in. | |
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| Player managers on 06:59 - Jan 11 with 3253 views | Loftgirl |
He was player/ref for years. | | | |
| Player managers on 09:16 - Jan 11 with 3099 views | loftboy |
Trevor Francis | |
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| Player managers on 09:17 - Jan 11 with 3091 views | DWQPR |
Before my time but Les Allen also played whilst managing I believe. | |
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| Player managers on 09:52 - Jan 11 with 3045 views | NorthantsHoop |
Possibly only at the lower tiers of the EFL, where it seems the best British younger coaches and managers seem to spring up from, rather than the so called Premier League stars, who just don't either have the ability or motivation to succeed in coaching and management. | | | |
| Player managers on 10:08 - Jan 11 with 3025 views | CamberleyR |
The 70s and 80s seemed to be the halcyon days of the player manager.
Terry Neill at Hull City (and N. Ireland for a spell)
Dave Mackay at Swindon
Johnny Giles at West Brom
Allan Clarke at Barnsley
John Toshack at Swansea
Kenny Dalglish at Liverpool
Graeme Souness at Rangers
Come the 90s they were still about but fewer. Reid at Man City, Hoddle at Swindon, Robson at Middlesbrough, Strachan at Coventry, Curbishley and Gritt at Charlton, Gullit and Vialli for the other team in Fulham. [Post edited 11 Jan 2023 10:10]
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| Player managers on 10:26 - Jan 11 with 2952 views | Wegerles_Stairs |
Roy Race did it for years. Even did it when he briefly moved to Walford after the DoF forced him to play crap youngsters in Melchester's first team.
I suppose it is the extreme example of 'show us your medals'; the manager is literally there on the pitch leading the troops. These days so many managers and coaches haven't even played the game at the highest level that it's become increasingly irrelevant - the Villas-Boas principle. | | | |
| Player managers on 10:31 - Jan 11 with 2952 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Bryan Robson at Middlesboro (He got them promoted)
"Robson played his final game as a player on 1 January 1997, in a Premier League game against Arsenal at Highbury 10 days before his 40th birthday. He claimed in his autobiography that he knew it was the right time to retire as his whole body ached for two weeks afterwards trying to keep up with the livewires Dennis Bergkamp and Ian Wright. "  | |
| Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent |
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| Player managers on 10:43 - Jan 11 with 2938 views | Lancashirehoop |
The first one ever to do it in the top flight I believe. | |
| Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean we're not all against you. |
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| Player managers on 11:17 - Jan 11 with 2895 views | Paddyhoops |
Was Blackie Gray his assistant?? | | | |
| Player managers on 12:31 - Jan 11 with 2797 views | Wilkinswatercarrier |
I recall a game my Commodore Amiga called Player Manager. You bought the players, like Championship Manager, but then played in the team on match day through Kick Off 2.
You may have to be a certain age to appreciate how ground breaking it was! | | | |
| Player managers on 12:40 - Jan 11 with 2786 views | Lanhoop |
I suspect rule changes are making them a rare beast now. I think you need to have a number of UEFA qualifications to coach a professional team and even more for a top tier team. They all take time and work to get. Player availability to do that while still playing comes second to swanning around Dubai or wherever. | | | |
| Player managers on 18:47 - Jan 11 with 2599 views | paulhoop2 |
Didn’t palace have attilio Lombardo at one point ? | |
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| Player managers on 17:02 - Jan 12 with 2488 views | stowmarketrange |
Maybe that’s what Everton are missing?Good old FF to lace his boots up and show them how to do it. | | | |
| Player managers on 09:49 - Jan 16 with 2367 views | Queeg |
Dino Dini was a genius.
Think it was the Kick off 1 engine for Player Manager and would have loved a version withe the newer engine.
Since I was gash at the attacking elements of the game id play as a sweeper. Sweep up and just lump the ball up front like a Wimbledon.
Buying players with uber pace and no stamina to come on as subs last knockings to kill the opposition.
Other than that I dont remember it at all. :D | | | |
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