The demise of the tracksuit manager

TeaCider said:
I know what you're thinking, I have too much time on my hands and get a life. 😂
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No, absolutely not. You need to do the other leagues now. It’s also interesting, thinking about what @Capybara said earlier regarding leagues and competitions dictating attire.

Graham Potter now looks like a revered Italian gallery owner from the 1990s, drunk on his own intelligence. But you have to work for that. He’s gone from coaching Ghanaian women wearing shorts and Copa Mundials to west London and Prada and John Lobb. But you can’t just pitch up in the second division and do that. Not usually anyway. You’ll be found out. Carrick NEEDS to make sure this form continues because he’s turned up in an expensive Moose Knuckles coat(the thick end of £1000). You normally have to earn the right to do that.

Do you graft, start off in club gear or a casual suit, nice and low-key, then start introducing your more expensive stuff as the results roll in. But you have tread that line very carefully because the danger is you go Phil Brown, full Phil Brown, and you’ve had a modicum of success and gone and got yourself a pink scarf and a Barbour jacket and a goatee beard and then you can’t come back from that. You’re finished.
 
Honey_Glazed_Sausages said:
People get annoyed by very weird things don't they? Who gives a f00k what the manager is wearing? I'd be bothered if my No.9 was wearing a parkour but aside from that...
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Who's annoyed ?

I'd be worried if the number 9 was wearing a "athletic training discipline or sport in which practitioners attempt to get from point A to point B in the fastest and most efficient way possible, without assisting equipment and often while performing artistic-gymnastic manoeuvres" too.
 
Warnock and Pulis liked to be kitted out in the full range of MFC training gear… presumably because they were too tight to buy their own stuff for a match day
 
Alexander Supertramp said:
Warnock and Pulis liked to be kitted out in the full range of MFC training gear… presumably because they were too tight to buy their own stuff for a match day
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If you're talking about tight managers & by his own admission, & the best manager we've ever had, big Jack, Warnocks in good company there 😉
 
Capybara said:
I'm literally (and I literally mean literally here) the last person to comment on fashion. But, as I've seen it, it tends to be league-specific. While in this country it has been track suit or full suit as described in the OP, in Germany the typical coach's outfit in recent years has been jeans and a hoodie or T-shirt depending on the weather. Perhaps a club anorak for older coaches. Remember Nagelsmann turning up in the 'Champions' League in quite a silly suit a couple of years ago because a full suit is the uniform for that competition.
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Stefan Baumgart's my favourite. T-Shirt and a flat cap whatever the weather.
 
I mourn the demise of spends first half in the directors box manager. Rather than taking up an advantageous position where the manager is able to survey the whole field and make tactical decisions based on this breadth of knowledge they prefer to stand where they can't see anything but are able to shout a lot.
 
theredrooster said:
Totally agree, some of them look like they've stepped straight off a golf course too. (Gary Monk, fresh from a clandestine meeting with an agent in the 19th hole anyone?).

Mind you, I like it, people seem to be wearing clothes they more naturally would in the real world. Always struck me watching footy years ago that most managers would be wearing clothes that the majority of the crowd watching wouldn't be wearing or that they themselves probably wouldn't wear most of the time. It was as if subconsciously they were all conforming with the lazy footy manager stereotype, you're either suit or tracksuit.

Yet sitting in a suit would be uncomfortable outdoors watching footy, and the tracksuit gear too seems a little odd, you're watching a match not exercising. More now are in casual clobber that they'd probably wear away from the ground. They are being more themselves and acting like individuals.

Jesus, I've wrote a hell of a lot of cobblers there for something I care so little about! 🤣
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As my priest says, "It's healthy to vent/ rant".

(Disclaimer: I don't have a priest, but I do have a bong I trust 👍)
 
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