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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Richard Brodie – my mission is to stop my players from repeating my big mistakes

Richard Brodie was not, by any stretch of the imagination, the sort of footballer you’d peg as a future manager. Yet here he is, three jobs in!
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Richard Brodie was not, by any stretch of the imagination, the sort of footballer you’d peg as a future manager.

A dressing room character with a reputation for off-field excess, the 37-year-old spent three legendary seasons at York City and won back-to-back Conference titles with Crawley Town and Fleetwood Town before a succession of misjudged moves derailed his career.
“Let’s be totally honest,” admits the 37-year-old Geordie, who also played in the EFL for Morecambe, “a coach is probably the last thing most people thought I would be.”
Yet here he is, three jobs into his managerial career...

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