Forget Lampard and Gerrard, Rob Edwards and Gary O’Neil prove you don’t need a stellar playing career to be a top Premier League manager
Gary O’Neil enjoys Wolves’ thumping win at Chelsea (Picture: Wolves via Getty Images)
The cult of celebrity is such that we often expect the next great football manager to be the last great player. In reality, the most promising managerial careers of recent years have been forged by men with more modest player careers, such as Eddie Howe and Graham Potter.
And yet, perhaps even their time as the coming men of the technical area has already passed. Former Chelsea boss Potter continues to bide his time and wait for the right opportunity to climb back onto the merry-go-round.
With his old club still struggling ten months after his sacking, Potter?s reputation looks less tarnished by the week but the landscape is changing the longer his sabbatical continues.
It wasn?t much more than a year ago he was seen as the brightest English manager out there but as the 48-year-old?s watching brief lengthens, younger men have stepped up to stake a claim.
Take Rob Edwards. In the same month Potter was being hired by Chelsea the 41-year-old was sacked by Watford, but he returned to management with rivals Luton less than two months later and oversaw a miracle as the Hatters reached the top flight, on a shoestring, for the first time in 31 years.
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