Focus On - Director of Football

The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast

The Cynic | A Celtic FC Pod

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Focus On is a feature Podcast that discusses and dissects a specific subject within the football world with expert analysis and insight.

In our first episode a panel of Chris Gallagher, Christian Wulff and Allan Edgar break down and debate the Director of Football role.

The panel are joined by Head Coach of Swedish top flight time Östersunds FK, Ian Burchnall as he gives us a practical breakdown of how the role of DoF works and his experience of it througout his time in Scandinavia.

Graeme McKay then enters the fray to give the Continental view and expand on the Organisation Theory Aspect a DoF can have at a club.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the 90 Minutes Cynic podcast. As it's the international week, we aren't
0:05.5	recording a free feed podcast this week, unfortunately. But our Patreon is bursting with features
0:11.4	and content. This week, on a daily basis, there's daily content with a few daily doubles as
0:17.2	well, featuring features and a whole host of different things. The podcast you're
0:22.2	about to listen to is from our Focus On series and was recorded in June. It looks at how the
0:28.6	role of director of football works and has really interesting guests and a really in-depth
0:34.2	look at that role. So have a listen, enjoy. And if you're interested in daily Celtic coverage and content, you can check out our Patreon.
0:43.7	Patreon.com slash 90 Minutes Cynic.
0:46.6	Thank you very much for listening and enjoy. The Thank you. I'm not. I'm
1:11.6	No.
1:13.6	I'm your host Chris Galaher and I'm joined by Christian Wolf.
1:39.3	That's me. That's him and Alan Edgar. That's me as well. That's him as well. So focus on we will take a subject that we find interesting and kind of do our best to dissect it and explain why we think something should be implemented or our thoughts on some whatever it is in the world of football to do with Celtic.
2:05.6	This week we're talking about directors of football slash sporting directors.
2:08.6	So we've got a really interesting line-up.
2:13.5	It's myself, Christian and Alan, and we're going to give you our thoughts and opinions on the subject.
2:22.3	We'll also then bring in Ian Birchnell, who is working over, he's a coach in Sweden for Oster's Sond.
2:23.3	Oster sound.
2:24.3	I hope you, I hope you pronounce that better when we actually speak to him.
2:30.3	Head coach, no less.
2:31.3	Head coach, yes, I should point that out.
2:33.3	He's a head coach in a top flight, but he,
2:36.4	top light flight of Swedish football, but has a lot of experience in Scandinavia. So he's
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