Graham Westley
EX-STEVENAGE, PRESTON, PETERBOROUGH AND NEWPORT MANAGER

As the World Cup kicked off last weekend, the Championship enjoyed the beginning of a four-week pause.
Every Championship manager will approach that break differently and I’m sure the planning for the situation will have begun much further back.
Unquestionably, decisions around squad compilation will have taken the possibility of a player’s World Cup participation into account.
The disruption of a player’s absence, the potential for injury, the fatigue factors – mental as much as physical – all need to be assessed and a...