Interview With a Football Manager: Mark Molesley
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Mark Molesley is the manager of non-league side Weymouth FC, and the assistant coach of the U23s at Premier League side AFC Bournemouth. Mark chats to Tifo about the reality of football management, how he juggles his two jobs, how he prepares his sides for games, and how with limited time and resources he's earned promotion with part-time Weymouth, who are now in the playoff places in the National League South.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I am Joe Devine and I'm here with Alex Stewart. |
| 0:09.8 | Today's episode is a very exciting one for us. We were joined by Mark Molesley. Mark is the |
| 0:15.1 | assistant coach of the under 23s at Bournemouth and also he's the manager of Weymouth which we spent most of the |
| 0:22.5 | time talking about. Weymouth are a non-league club to about two divisions away from the football |
| 0:27.3 | league is that right? Yes yes okay promoted not so long ago and currently as Mark describes them to be |
| 0:33.8 | slightly overachieving in fourth or third in the division. |
| 0:38.7 | Conference South. |
| 0:39.6 | In Conference South. |
| 0:40.9 | So it's really interesting. |
| 0:42.1 | Mark has two jobs, basically. |
| 0:43.7 | So we talked to him about that. |
| 0:44.9 | We talked to him a little bit about his management philosophy, what he's learned from being at Bournemouth, |
| 0:49.8 | a little bit about his life and the different experiences that he's had which have led him being |
| 0:55.9 | by the sounds of it quite a good manager quite a good manager of people yeah very it was really |
| 1:02.2 | really interesting it was really interesting um so thanks to mark for coming uh before we get started |
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| 2:05.4 | That's about it, isn't it? Should we get on with it? |
| 2:07.5 | Yeah. Welcome Mark Molesley. |
| 2:21.4 | Okay, Mark Molesley. Thanks so for coming. We really appreciate your time. |
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