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TIME WILL SHOW US IF GRIMSBY HAD A JOLLEY GOOD IDEA

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WILL the Michael Jolley experiment fail? Perhaps. But that doesn’t mean Grimsby were wrong to appoint the former banker as their manager. It has become the accepted orthodoxy that players retire, become coaches and eventually graduate to the dugout. This perpetuates a ‘show-us-yermedals’ culture, where dressing room respect is ear ned not through knowledge and ideas but by England caps and Premier League appearances.
How, we are asked, can someone who’s never played the game command men who have?
Yet Angelo Dundee tur ned Muhammad Ali into the greatest heavyweight of...

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