Bielsa’s Bucket: The awesome power behind a Premier League icon

Aside from the odd sight the Leeds manager provides, doesn’t sitting and squatting like that for so long hurt, asks Hannah Jane Parkinson

Leeds head coach Marcelo Bielsa

You'll see him prowling the touchlines, the lenses of his glasses dappled with droplets of water, his tactical brain scanning the angles of the pitch, then there it is: The iconic squat.

Marcelo Bielsa is known for various eccentricities — his nickname is El Loco Bielsa, madman Bielsa — but the most visible is surely his habit of eschewing the dugout seats to get down low on his haunches, hands clasped between his knees, in the position of a plumber considering the problem with your washing machine.