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ROUTE ONE? WITH JAY-JAY IN THE SIDE!

MANAGING in the Premier League really isn’t that different to managing in League Two. People are still people, whatever they are paid.
When I was assistant to Sam Allardyce at Bolton, we had Ivan Campo, Jay-Jay Okocha. A World Cup winner in Youri Djorkaeff. Kevin Nolan was an 18-year-old boy, but he was just as outspoken and just as diffi cult to manage as any of them. You can have problems and tough personalities at every level.
Those Bolton years were such an important learning curve for me. We had 13 different nationalities, all with different languages, cultures and religions. It ...

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