Managers under microscope

By profession Arrigo Sacchi was a shoe salesman, and not a very good one, before becoming manager of Milan and winning back-to-back European Cups.

“How can you coach top players without having been one?” he was asked.

“I never knew that to become a jockey you must first have been a horse.” José Mourinho gave a similar response when he was sneered at for being simply The Translator for Bobby Robson and Louis Van Gaal.