I Watched The Playbook on Netflix
Here is a little secret for you all. For a very long time now, I have thought about starting my coaching badges to become a football coach. It is rather expensive and frankly medium do not send me enough money to buy a chocolate bar let alone to pay the amount of money the FA charge for me to become the next Pep Guardiola. But that does not mean one cannot fantasise about how my teams would play.
As I have fantasised, I have often wondered what type of coach would I be? I know my footballing philosophy, but would I be the type of coach that calls out his players in the media? Would I be the motivational shouting coach that I have despised for most of my life? Would I be the cool coach? Or would I be the coach that goes off on the media half the time? All the thoughts one has at 3:31pm on the Northern Line on the way home from University. One thing I do know is I would be myself as a coach.
But that did not stop me from studying some of the coaches that I have admired in my lifetime. So, I looked at the likes of Bill Belichick and Mike Tomlin in the NFL, Grep Popovich, Dawn Staley and Steve Kerr in the world of basketball, Jill Ellis, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp in football and the likes of Patrick Mouratoglou in tennis and Freddie Roach in boxing. In doing this I was able to notice a few things which left me asking a few questions. One of the things I…
