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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akinwalere.

This season, plenty of managers have talked themselves into trouble.

Oliver Glastner, angered Crystal Palace fans by telling them to stay humble.

And Ruben Amarin got sacked shortly after public criticism of Manchester United.

So just how powerful are a manager's words.

All right, in with us for this one.

Football Languids Suprimo.

Charlie Aescher, we've also got Jack Pitt Brook,

who has seen his fair share of rants from Spurs managers over the years as well.

All right, chance, let's start with a recent example because last week, Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glastner, started a war of words with the fans.

He said, I always said the most important thing is stay humble. And it's the same for the fans.

Never forget where you're coming from. I think a few who are so critical are not so humble and forgot where they came from.

And you get punished for this. So the context of this, obviously, is that Glastner delivered the

club's first ever major trophy. But then he revealed that he was also leaving at the end of the

season. Slight hypocrisy here, Charlie? I mean, it's definitely an unusual situation for a manager

to trail their exit so long in advance. I guess his worry was

that it was going to leak and then he wouldn't sort of be in control of the narrative, which is

a big part of it, whether you're a football manager or a politician or whatever. And then the

stay humble thing is, it's really difficult because I listened to what he was saying where he

kind of listed out

his achievements at the club and went into quite granular detail about like the number of points

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