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Micky Adams on the stresses of being a modern-day football boss: If you like sleep and love your family do not be a football manager

Daily Mail | September 22, 2017

When the Welsh FA wanted someone to deliver a talk on crisis management to their aspiring young coaches they booked Micky Adams.

Adams can recognise a crisis. Fulham were 91st in the Football League when he took control. Brighton were homeless and broke. Leicester were in receivership.

He took them all up. But his crisis talk was about La Manga, 13 years ago, when nine of his Leicester players were arrested and three charged with rape, the beginning of the end for him as a Premier League boss.

Micky Adams knows what it is like to be a football manager under stress and pressure
Micky Adams knows what it is like to be a football manager under stress and pressure
Adams can recognise a crisis and has had his fair share of difficult managerial jobs
Adams can recognise a crisis and has had his fair share of difficult managerial jobs
But whenever he was offered a crisis job he didn't turn it down... he looked at it as a challenge
But whenever he was offered a crisis job he didn't turn it down.
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