On the very first morning on my Uefa Pro Licence course, the guest speaker was a man called Michael Caulfield.
Caulfield specialises in sports psychology and, about 80 seconds into that opening session, the 19 of us in the room knew that we were readying ourselves for one of the toughest jobs in the world.
A job where the only guarantee was “the sack”.
We laughed, but it was a slightly nervous laugh as it dawned on us that this guy was 100 per cent correct.
“You should have told us that before we paid the eight grand,” quipped one attendee, but straight away this man had our attention. We were not there to learn how to do the job, but how to survive in it.
Football management is …
- April 29, 2022
