Most Successful EFL Managers of the Decade?

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4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Loads of questions, some answers & some fence-sitting. Biggest surprises of the season so far? Which managers are/could be most under pressure, seems to be a quite a few chairman pulling the trigger recently. Why over the past few years have teams found it increasingly difficult to bounce back from relegation to the championship at the first time of asking, there don’t seem to be many "yo-yo" teams anymore like there were 10 years ago. Last few years have seen some formations become in vogue in the EFL (wolves 343, luton 442 diamond), which team is playing the formation/tactical/stylistic setup that others will copy next year? Have to look at when the system appears to be making the group of players more effective that they should be on paper. “Top 5 Most Successful EFL Managers of the Decade” Pick an 11 from the EFL. 4 Championship players, 4 from League One and 3 from League Two. If you could each meet one player or manager in the EFL, who would you meet and why? Football Manger / Championship Manager. 1. Favourite edition. 2. Favourite player who never lived upto their potential in real life. 3. Greatest achievement. Best dressed guy on the pod? This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, you are listening to the Not the Top 20 podcast with Ali Maxwell and with George Ehrlich.
0:26.3	George, you're a year older than when we last spoke.
0:29.7	Your birthday on Monday, the 18th of November, for those who'd like to note it down for next year.
0:35.1	The same as Peter Schmeichael and ex-Ox United legend Chrissy Allen.
0:39.5	Chrissy Allen and Peter Schmichael. That's quite good. I think, I think, and I'm going to have to
0:44.7	look up as I say it, that I share a birthday, yes I do, with President of the United States Donald Trump.
0:51.1	So I'd rather be Peter Schmeichael and Chris Allen. To very similar men, I must say. Very good. Very good. Well, look, what I wanted to ask
0:59.8	before we started was, did you have a nice birthday weekend? Because I know you were able to
1:03.4	stretch it out basically from Friday lunchtime until arguably still some way into this week.
1:09.3	Yeah, yeah, I've given myself a couple of days off.
1:12.4	And it's been very nice, thank you.
1:14.3	All very good.
1:15.1	Oxford, Ipswich being called off on Saturday due to international call-ups was quite handy
1:20.2	because it meant that I could continue the celebrations for as long as possible.
1:24.9	And so, yeah, it's been a very good weekend, thank you.
1:27.1	Great.
1:27.4	Well, I haven't got you a present.
1:28.7	It feels to me like we play a lot of golf
1:31.0	and there's always a prize for the winner
1:33.1	and that winner tends to be you,
1:35.2	I'd say like 80% of the time.
1:36.8	So I feel like I give you probably more gifts
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