Episode 15: Neil Warnock - The Gaffer
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With a career in English football going all the way back to 1967, Neil Warnock has traveled to every corner of the country. In his 2013 book, The Gaffer – The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager, Warnock outlines his view of the football world. It’s an old fashion view, in many respects, but a romantic one too.   Less an autobiography than an insight into the day-to-day running of a Championship/Premier League team, the book covers Warnock’s likes (wingers, Scott Parker, his son William, the British Monarchy) and dislikes (Shaun Wright Philips, Graham Poll, the design of the Premier League trophy).   Tune in to find out more about what it is that makes football’s most dislikeable looking man tick and find out what Al and Johnny made of Warnock's offering to the literary canon. 
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