Cult of gaffer losing the plot

The very first manager to have “lost the dressing room”, according to Google, was John Barnes in 1999.

Cult of gaffer losing the plot

“Barnes has not only lost the dressing room, he has lost the entire stadium,” wrote Tom Shields then in the Scotland Herald.

Later, in his autobiography, Alan Stubbs described how that Celtic dressing was misplaced.

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