PERFORMANCE ARTITS

GARY TEDDER looks at the amazing change in the way managers behave on the touchline

It may be difficult to believe now, when observing the latest outbreak of managerial pitch-side pyrotechnics, but there was a time on match days when a club’s manager appeared to be the calmest man in the ground.Dressed like the chief clerk from a local bank, in a sober, often cheap looking suit, white shirt and plain, dark tie, with the seasonal addition of a well-worn mackintosh, or – and this always gave him the roguish air of a second-hand car salesman – a sheep-skin jacket, h...

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