Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

When Lee Johnson was appointed by Oldham in 2013 at the age of 31, he spoke passionately of imposing a philosophy built watching Barcelona and Bayern Munich.
“Well, we’ll see,” chuckled his dad Gary, a gnarled veteran of three decades and 1,200 games at the managerial coalface.
“You can have the greatest philosophy in the world, but League One is a hard place. Players are very inconsistent, pitches are very inconsistent. You might want to pass it round 500 times on the edge of the box, but there’s no Messi and Xavi in that league.”
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