Big Ron Manager Ep1 (1/4)

The great Ron Atkinson is a legend in the world of football, having overseen over a thousand FA Cup games for Manchester United and is the only

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in the last 25 years to have guided a club off the top, flies to Europe as winner of the Cup with shipping. On Wednesday, after retiring seven years ago, Big Wand became one of the country's favorite TV pundits, but in 2004 he suffered a spectacular fall from grace after making a racist comment about Chelsea's Marcel Desailly when he thought he was out of the game. air. Ron knows that his comments were indefensible, but he feels that he has already served his time.

Terry Venables once told me that he said: when are you going to stop apologizing? you apologize and that's it, I prefer to be judged by the people I've worked with and that includes two years on the most outspoken ghafir in the game. a point to prove that he has over 50 years of experience under his belt, but does he still have what it takes to succeed? discover that the sky wall has created a unique experiment in the world of football and must be chosen as a troubleshooter to see if he can help revive the declining fortunes of a lower league club light years away from the rich Premiership cash gets 20 grand a week players at this level are lucky to earn 20 grand a year the crowds are actually over 5,000 it's a far cry from the challenges of Old Trafford rum to address issues both in and out of the picture , you have to let the

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know, make a list of the points you're going to make, you say, well, I think you're fine, that'll be it.

It would be a great help to you, yes, and I think it would be a great help if they like, yes, you will analyze the team and their tactics. The first reaction will be to go there and take the crash course in the financial horror story of the lower league. I like some of the things you told me today, but I can't believe it, that's how it will grow and be able to work its magic when this depressed football world, every clip of success on the playing field, certain things can give you that. success for me, everything is important, hard work, from top to bottom, the players, the staff, the back of the people, we all have one mind totally committed to the corner, secondly, decisive management, management strong and finally the meeting room, Bucky, that's so important, they have to be prepared. back him to the core and give him all the support they can.

That's Ron's recipe for success. Sounds simple, right? So we contacted several lower league clubs to offer them incorrect services as a problem solver, one of the first. To take on the challenge was Peterborough United's second division man, a special brush for you, back on the market. I need your experience l ll Peterborough owner Barry Frye has just parted ways with his coach, former England defender Mark Wright, and handed the reins to his assistant Steve, please Dale, former coach and number two, a new coach, far below the great coaches, but as you and I know, it's a completely different game when you're a coach, it would be great to have you there, you know, with your experience in football matters.

I'm pretty sure we could, we can do something, in fact I'll turn the car around and get there right away, yeah I do man, so let's take a closer look at exactly what races they allowed Peterborough, nicknamed the elegant They were relegated to the new season last season but are shopping for immediate promotion off the field they are fighting for survival Barry Fryers invested over a million pounds of his own money to keep the smart flow going. It's been a struggle for the kids for years and it's a big responsibility to pay everyone's salaries every month and knock on wood.

I have done it until now. My advice to anyone. Dunbar Football Club. Steve, please give them until the end of the season to prove themselves as interim coach. Until now, he has never managed to lead the club. as Ron will discover that he is a man who puts his heart and soul into his work, but Steve is more than arresting and well, Saxon Academy made a dream clear by winning three of its first four games and reaching the playoff spots for the equipment. There are games left to play, so could it be that the wand task isn't so pretty after all or is this good run just beginner's luck?

Worryingly, their cash problems mean Posche can only afford a small team of players and some of them are not playing centre-back. Defender Chris Plummer has been diagnosed with testicular cancer. Starting goalkeeper Mark Tyler is out with a broken rib. What I am most pushing for is that Steve has made the difficult step from training camp coach to general manager of the club. Now he has to win the championship. I respect the players who used to be his teammates, goodbye, so those are just some of the problems that the great Ron faces, now it's time to get to know the people, make the club work well.

It is my great pleasure to introduce you all to Ron Atkinson. I have been very I am very fortunate to know that he has raced for over 30 years. Not only does he have experience on the football field, but he also has experience off the football field, so I brought him in in an effort to help the Peterborough United Football Club. He has my one hundred percent authority to do things. change things if you want to welcome Ron, God bless you, what I basically come to do is try to help the club in every way we can, mainly to help Steve and his team because that's basically where I come from. from a football point of view, but there are other areas where over the years I have seen certain things happen.

I've worked at lower levels and I've enjoyed it at lower levels when I was at Kettering and Cambridge so I have a good idea of ​​what you know you have to put up with and have to work and I know the money is non-existent. I was going to say it's not abundant, but I'll accept that non-existent. Oh, I wish, I wish we could, we could make it. I can certainly start to make this happen. It would be foolish of me to be happy there, you know, 27 year old adults on I-45 to not get experience from anyone and if Ron is looking at me and says Steve, you know, that was great, that lady.

Hey, could you add that to it? So great, I'll use it and I'm not going to have breakfast, we'll all have dinner. Lovely tea, ma'am, it's fine and I'm not going to keep up with the sun loungers. Sorry, Don Ronnie has the job until the end of the season, unknown quantity, but I am very, very impressed with him, he has a wonderful opportunity to start his management career, it has been quite a hobby of mine for years and the fact that be When so many relatively inexperienced ones come in, there are a lot of experienced coaches in this country that maybe they could take advantage of, he wants to listen, he wants to listen and, from my point of view, as the owner of this football club, it is an opportunity absolutely ideal for you. come here with your experience and him to learn from you, it would be a great advantage for us and could be that five ten fifteen percent more, yes, allowing us to be a former manager with thirty-one years of experience in potato chips now In the boardroom at Ron, full-time, he knows that if he can help his old friend win promotion, it will go a long way towards ensuring the future survival of the club.

The promotion would mean so much that her fate picked up after last season, there was a slight increase in TV revenue of course and other advertising possibilities and of course you would get bigger doors, we would sell more replica jerseys , that they would sell more acts, that they would sell more scarves, that they would sell more mugs, so all that money would pay another month's salaries using our other month off. The way we lost a million last year, that's twenty thousand dollars a week, we can't afford twenty thousand dollars a week, it's Saturday, the team is on its way to Knox County, the game they have to win, it's there to keep your promotion, it's wrong first. chance to see the boat and its new boss in action.

What it means to be a good manager. Well, you certainly have to clarify your instructions and your decision making. This is very important. He has to foster an atmosphere of hard work and trust. at the same time, it does not inhibit the players, it has to make sure that all the players are prepared to move forward, enjoy the game and play to the fullest, play to their full potential and it is very important that, after all, the game is won. Total respect from his players. It's not a popularity contest we're going to be in, we're going to win judging by this Steve is a proponent of enthusiastic team talk before the game You're the team to beat Ron's first impressions from the stands are encouraging He's immediately impressed with the way Peterborough passed the ball I got it from the footage here, move, move on my keyboard and then a breakthrough with a perfect elephant wait, took so retro 20, a second goal after the break puts Posh in command, the teacher couldn't correct I hope they don't mean Alan Brazil Now the Porsche - girls - the good stuff, but the exuberance of Bleasdale's touchline doesn't sit well with the home fans.

An interesting style, it was not very direct and spiteful. Give up a late penalty. Peterborough held on to win 2-1. Ron couldn't have hoped for a better start to his adventure with Peter Brad, they're now four wins in five games under rookie boss Steve and have strengthened their hold on a playoff spot, so it's Ron's verdict that's important , excellent, very good performance, particularly impressed by the way they played, they played with a quality of Their passing was good, it was a pleasant surprise to see the way they played well at this time. Well, you know they're in a good trot?

They've won four out of five, but you know realistically that's not going to continue and maybe that's the case. When my experiences from the game could be useful for the coach so that the stage is set after the break. Ron gets stuck in and meets the players. In every football club I've been involved with, there's one guy in charge, who's the boss. the boss and for my money that's what he should be called, but how will Steve react to having a big one on his patch? There is so much at stake, the attention will soon start to increase, we are doing very well so we do not want interruptions because a will fire me if I get three defeats in the room and I don't want it