num_pages: 320
description: How does a top professional football manager cope with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with living breathing and sleeping football 24 hours a day 365 days a year? How does the man in charge handle the ever-present danger of getting sacked in the ultimate results business?Neil Warnock's The Gaffer contains countless insights into the trials and tribulations the joyous peaks and the soul-destroying troughs of life as a football manager. This wonderful new book takes fans into the changing room the training ground and the boardroom. Warnock draws heavily on a lifetime of experiences at all levels in football but particularly on his tumultuous spells at Crystal Palace Queens Park Rangers and Leeds United. From transfer dealings to negotiations with agents from half-time team-talks to training sessions from scouting trips to team-bonding sprees from administrators to chairman from injuries to referees - The Gaffer spills the beans.You won't have read a football book like this before.
language: English
title: The Gaffer
publisher: Headline