NTT20 Pod Meets: Michael Appleton

Not The Top 20 Podcast

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4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When offered the chance to sit down with Michael Appleton for an hour, it was a no-brainer. Often mentioned on the podcast - sometimes as a brilliant young British Manager, other times as George's favourite footballing person of all time - now rivalled by Chris Maguire! We packed George off to chat with him, and we made the most of the hour, discussing: his desire to get back into management (and the importance of choosing a club rather than a division), the Championship players and managers that he admires, his time at Blackpool, Blackburn, Portsmouth and Oxford United, his philosophy and his view on data & xG in analysis, his vision in the transfer market, and how cup competitions can help & hinder. Thanks to Dean at Oporto Sports Management for helping to arrange this interview at short notice, and to Michael of course for his openness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a very special episode of the very special episode of the Not the Top 20 podcast.
0:24.5	For once, it's not Ali Maxwell alongside me, but it's someone with a wealth of EFL experience as a player, for West Brulman, for Preston, mainly as a manager for Portsmouth, Blackpool, Blackburn, and then crucially at Oxford where he oversaw one of the most successful
0:37.8	spells in the club's career. And he is the definitive answer to the age-old question of which
0:42.7	manager would you least like to fight, basically. And it's Michael Apleton. Thank you so much for being
0:48.3	here, Michael. It's an absolute pleasure for me to sit here alongside you as an Oxford fan.
0:52.8	No, no, listen, it's great to be here, although I'm not sure it'll be in the UFC ring
0:58.1	at the minute.
0:59.3	I seem to have lost about two stone in wake of an injury, but yeah, I'm sure once I get
1:04.1	my arm sordid out, it'll be a back.
1:05.4	You said when you walked in that you're feeling a bit light at the moment.
1:08.3	I still, I wouldn't like to take you on now. Anyone who's watching this instead of listening,
1:11.6	you'll see that Michael's still fairly large,
1:13.9	in a good sense, I must say.
1:15.4	But let's get straight into it.
1:17.8	And obviously you left Oxford coming up to 18 months ago.
1:21.8	You went into a job at Leicester,
1:23.3	assisting Craig Shakespeare,
1:24.9	and you left that role in the summer.
1:27.3	So, I mean, assisting Craig Shakespeare and you left that role in the summer. So what have you been doing since leaving that role?
1:29.3	You've been keeping a close eye on the AFL since you left Oxford and again
1:32.2	since you left Leicester?
1:33.6	Yeah, I've been trying to get to as many games as I possibly can at different levels,
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