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A bit of backstory to me.
Do you know my biggest non footballing inspiration?
Gordon Ramsay.
You may think it is to do with his cooking, but no. He shaped the way I handle a dressing room. He shaped the way I handle one of the biggest skills in football — man management.
My dad was a chef at a Michelin Star restaurant, so naturally I became invested in cooking. If I was not an aspiring football coach, I would be pursuing the culinary arts.
But anyway, that is beside the point. The point is, I began to watch a lot of cooking shows, and I became very invested in Ramsay’s character from young.
His passion. His desire. His fight.
I began to build my persona around this character, how I tackled talking to my team. How I am able to balance aggression with love. Praise the good, berate the bad. Anyone who cannot take the bad, they are weak.
One time, when I was coaching my local team, we had a shambolic half. During a run in one of the cups, we were 3-0 down at half time.
There was this player, our 6, who just didn’t care. This had been the case for multiple games. Lazy, lethargic, constantly jogging, failing to listen my instructions and track his man, not tracking back when needing to.
2 of the 3 goals were preventable.
I come in the dressing room, everyone is deflated. This person, this person is smiling texting on his phone. Like we had just won the UCL, and he was speaking to his family.
Do you know what I did? I insulted him. I insulted him in front of everyone, I insulted his ethic. I said he isn’t playing for this team. Right in front of the time. He doesn’t care.
And do you know how he responded? He told me to “shut up you fat cunt”.
And I vividly remember how I responded, it being my most intense moment in the dressing room.
“The only thing fat is the way you run on the pitch, get a fucking grip you donkey, and take a big look at yourself in the mirror”.
He stood up. And he pushed me. And do you know how I reacted? I punched his face, and broke his nose.
No, I’m kidding. I just laughed. I laughed because I know that was confirmation — that I had filtered out a poison from my team.
I told him to get changed, and leave, because you are not playing a single minute for this club again.
And in the process, I had created an environment where players will never dare to slack off on the pitch again.
Gordon Ramsay never fights back when contestants try abuse him. He knows it is their demise. They have committed self sabotage. And it is their end of their journey.
That was the end of Richards (our 6). The issue was, we did not have a 6 on the bench. That is why I had to persist with him so long.
But we were 3-0 down, and I had to adapt. I ended up switching to a 5 at the back formation — opting to utilise my wingers as the wing backs, taking off my full backs, and putting on 2 more wingers from my bench.
5-3-2. Hyper aggressive. All in, 3 substitutes at the half time mark.
We ended up demolishing them. 5-0 in the 2nd half. We pressed with intensity, we forced them into the wide areas where they could not deal with the fresh legs of our new wingers, and we constantly generated breaks with our intensity.
They could not get NEAR us. The fight, the argument, it shaped my managerial career to that point. Because we ended up coming down from a 3-0 deficit, no 6, to winning the entire cup.
The players? I have never seen them so tired up. The intimidation worked. The intimidation that I based off of Gordon Ramsay, and how he operates a kitchen.
The weak chefs, they are eliminated. Either those that cannot take the heat and fight back, or those that get scared and see their performance drop.
I translate that philosophy to football.
And after the win, I resigned. I resigned to focus on other matters, I resigned on a high.
I rewarded my boys after a win. I ended up gifting every single one of them a pair of Air Jordan 1s of their choice. Because you cannot be all fight, you have to praise the good.
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