Rob Edwards (Luton Manager): Premier League Promotion, Gaining Perspective and Bouncing Back (E276)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Luton Town football manager Rob Edwards sits with Jake and Damian to discuss the highs and lows of his career in football management.
In this episode, former professional footballer and Luton Town’s manager, Rob Edwards, known for his resilience and leadership, opens up about the mental challenges he faced, emphasising the importance of a supportive team.
He reflects on his team’s transformative journey from early struggles to becoming a fearless and entertaining force on the field. Rob also recounts a pivotal moment after a tough defeat, where he rallied his team amidst doubt and criticism, setting a new course driven by bravery and ambition.
Rob also bring us onto the field for the incident which almost took the life of Luton's captain, Tom Lockyer, and the effect this incident had on his perspective.
He shares the inspiring encounters he shared with fellow premier league managers; Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola, Unai Emery and Mikel Arteta, who motivated him to keep pushing forward in his field. This episode showcases Rob Edward’s journey, demonstrating how resilience, teamwork, and an enduring passion for football propel him and his team forward, despite any obstacles they encounter.
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| 0:00.0 | You can watch Premier League games as much as you want, but then when you're still on the touch line and the lads are feeling it, then you realize, okay, we got to up our game. |
| 0:08.0 | Bullet between your eyes, straight away, you do the tactical. I'm going in now and they're having it. Then it became bigger |
| 0:15.8 | than football. That was probably the most challenging time. This was different. |
| 0:19.2 | It just looked so much more serious. He's brave, he's the bravest person I know, he's a fighter and I wanted us to embody what he is. |
| 0:26.8 | It just fuels the fire to want to get back there. |
| 0:30.0 | That is Luton Manager Rob Edwards. This is high performance, the show that unlocks the minds of the most fascinating people on the planet. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Jake Humphrey and alongside our expert Damien Hughes we learn from the stories, the struggles |
| 0:45.9 | and successes of our guests, allowing us all to find our own version of high performance. |
| 0:51.1 | And as you're about to hear, sometimes something happens in life that really puts things in perspective. |
| 0:57.0 | Our guest Rob was managing Lute and Town in the Premier League when their captain, Tom L Locker collapsed on the pitch with a cardiac arrest. |
| 1:05.4 | It's a moving conversation about the power of team ship, sport and optimism. |
| 1:11.4 | Rob Edwards comes next. optimism. me. I think you know how these conversations normally begin. What do you believe high performance to be, Rob? |
| 1:26.0 | I think maximising potential. Trying to drag every ounce of whatever it is out of every person and along the way having fun with it. |
| 1:36.0 | I think that's really important to enjoy what we're doing. |
| 1:38.0 | We're really lucky and privileged to be working in the sport that we are. |
| 1:42.0 | Yeah, just giving people the opportunity and the platform |
| 1:45.2 | to go and be the best they can be. Love that. I think what's really interesting is |
| 1:49.2 | that your job is to get the best out of people. We talk so often about the physical demands on a football player. |
| 1:54.8 | I'm really interested to explore with you the mental demands on a manager. |
| 2:00.4 | You need good people around you because we don't do it on our own. I've got |
| 2:05.8 | great people that work with me that I'm allowed that I can dump stuff on, talk to, |
| 2:11.6 | ask questions, and allow them to go and crack on with their jobs as well, |
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