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Not The Top 20 Podcast

NTT20 Pod Meets: Chris Powell (Part Two)

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Sports

4.8648 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Make sure you catch Part One first! In Part Two, we go through Chris' transition from player to manager and his managerial career - with plenty to discuss from spells at Charlton, Huddersfield and Southend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is part two.

0:03.0

When I'm walking down these streets with my heart two. This is part two of NTT 20 meets Chris Powell.

0:28.3

This section is focusing on Chris's transition from a sparkling playing career into the management side of the game.

0:41.3

We hear all about his experience at Charlton, getting the job without applying highs and of course some lows and what it was like working under Roland

0:48.4

Ducatelais, of course. And then we talk about Huddersfield Town and South End United where Chris spent just over a year

0:57.0

ending back in March the worst injury crisis potentially ever seen in the EFL. Chris discusses just how much

1:06.4

that impacted things at South End this year and goes on to talk more generally about management,

1:12.4

about the pressures, about how the game has changed since his first managerial role and about

1:17.7

what the future might hold for him. It was such a pleasure to spend a few hours in the company

1:23.2

of Chris Powell, such an engaging and kind man and incredibly open during this interview for which

1:29.7

I'm really, really appreciative and very, very grateful. So we hope that you enjoy this as much as

1:35.5

you enjoyed part one. Make sure you check out part one if you haven't already. And yeah, let's get

1:41.1

straight into it as I discussed the end of Chris's playing career and the transition into coaching.

1:52.6

You played for a few more teams towards the end of your career.

1:55.9

I'm quite eager to get into the managerial section.

1:59.2

But you had a sped in the championship with West Ham,

2:01.5

where you won the playoffs against Preston,

2:03.9

two spells at Charlton with Watford in between.

2:07.6

And then you finish your career at Leicester.

2:11.0

And I think it's interesting, isn't it,

2:14.0

because Sven ends up part of the Leicester story as well, right?

2:23.3

But when you joined Leicester, was it Nigel Pearson in charge of the club? Yeah, yeah.

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