Larry Ryan: Gaffers draw on all their powers to make us run

We are still waiting for sport’s true visionary, who constructs a winning philosophy around the mantra: 'At our own pace today, lads'

RUN NOW OR LATER: Jurgen Klopp and Pep Lijnders during a match at Anfield in April. Pic: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

We know all this already, of course, but it is constantly driven home how much of management, in all team sport, basically involves persuading people to run.

Nobody gets into these things for the running, it’s safe to say. It seems to be well established as a fairly fundamental human condition that we prefer not to run at 100% of our capacity, never mind 110%. And even if we can be convinced to dig deep, in this regard, ideally we’d like to wait until things have settled down, aerobically, before ‘going again’.