The League Paper

STENDEL’S STYLE IS ONLY SHOWN ON PITCH

by
The LeaguePaper Team
11 August 2019

NO POSER: Stendel
DANIEL Stendel doesn’t look like a football manager. At least not one from the twenty-first century. No debonair coatigan. No earpiece.
With his that’ll do haircut, crooked teeth and Man at C&A polo shirts, the German looks more like someone you’d find flogging Rustlers at a 24-hour garage. Yet style can be projected in many forms.
And in Stendel’s case, it’s his team that does the posing.
Actually, that is unfair. In humbling star-studded Fulham at Oakwell last weekend, Barnsley did a lot more than just look pretty. They looked dangero...

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