George is in the hot seat on his own this week, but he’s joined by Ben, aka The Worst Football Manager Ever for a good chinwag.
The question of the week revolves around your favourite FM staff. Who are the scouts and the coaches that you always go for?
Ben only tends to manage in England, but he tends not to develop the same level of loyalty with his staff as he does with his players. In his current save with Sutton United he’s using David Hunt, who plays for Margate in real life right now.
George on the other hand is absurdly loyal, mainly to Terry McDermott. Partly because he’s a great coach who never manages to pass his coaching badges and abandon George. He also reveals a soft spot for bringing in a random retired pro to fill one of the roles at his clubs.
Then we have a chat about how our FM saves tend to end up either like a big happy family or an extension of the mob.
But wait! There’s more! All of this –
- George tries to coin the phrase “you’ve got to break some legs to win some things.”
- Ben has three saves on the go, but the one he thinks about most is his Sutton United save. He took over after getting sacked at Gloucester and Glossop. He narrowly missed out on promotion, but his pre-season has been going well.
- George has started a new save at Benfica. He’s got a strangely unbalanced team thanks to some terrible strikers. But weirdly four games in it’s all going really rather well. He’s scored ten goals and kept a clean sheet in his first three league games. Even without Renato Sanches.
- And then we have a chat about how Ben started branding himself The Worst Football Manager Ever. It’s mainly because he doesn’t succeed very often. And he gets sacked in almost all of his saves.
There’s loads of other good stuff in there as well, and you can listen to it all in the SoundCloud player below. And if that’s not your cup of tea, head over to iTunes and search for Deep Lying Podcast.