Chris Wilder - In The Manager's Office #4: Part 1 | The Sack Race
01:26 - Alfreton Town
03:46 - Halifax Town
05:22 - Oxford United and Northampton Town
08:53 - Not being paid at Northampton Town
11:00 - Northampton Town Takeover
Part 2 coming 2nd February 2020...
After leading Northampton Town to the League Two title in 2016, Chris Wilder had elevated his managerial stock to new heights.
Rumours were rife that recently relegated Championship clubs weere on the hunt for Wilder’s signature as they each sought a swift return to the second tier.
“I was due for a press conference in London at 2 o’clock and I was intercepted along the way,” Wilder explained to The Sack Race.
“The night before I received a phone call that I wasn’t expecting: ‘Would you be interested in speaking to the board of directors at Sheffield United in London on the Tuesday morning?’.
“I met them at 8 o’clock and about half-an-hour later I was asked to leave the room. I walked into a side room with my assistant Alan Knill, who’d been in the interview with me, and turned to him and said: ‘I think we’ve got this job and we’re going to have to take it.’
“It was always talked about by a lot of my friends and people that I knew in Sheffield, but obviously I’d never coveted it, yet I knew that if I got offered the job I’d never forgive myself if I didn’t take it.
“So I came back into the room, and was then offered the job. I was obviously proud and delighted to be given the opportunity of managing this famous football club.
“I then had to make a difficult phone call to Charlton...which somebody else did - that’s why you’ve got agents!”
Wilder’s managerial career spans nearly 20 years; from the ninth-tier of England’s league ladder right up to the dizzying heights of the Premier League.
During this time Wilder has enjoyed title triumphs, promotions, a quadruple, an LMA Manager of the Year accolade, and more recently he was crowned The Sack Race’s Manager of the Decade (2010 to 2019).
It’s remarkable to think that the boss started the previous decade in the Blue Square Premier when his Oxford side faced Tamworth in early 2010, only to then end the decade at the helm of his boyhood club Sheffield United who finished 2019 with a match against Pep Guardiola’s defending champions Man City. What a memorable managerial journey it has been, and continues to be.
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25 янв 2020
