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John Herdman



Does anyone know who he's referring to in this article?

“I will never forget there was an ex-England player, who was at the time in the England youth coaching system, and I was coaching his son at Sunderland,” he said.

“I’ll never forget him: he stopped me and he said: ‘Look John, you’re a really good teacher-coach. I wish I had the teaching skill you had but the one thing you’ll never have is that experience of standing in a field in front of 60,000 people.’

“And he said: ‘That’s why you’ll never get to the highest level.’ It’s always stuck in the back of my mind: my God, I want to prove you wrong. I won’t name names but it’s always stuck with me.”



Does anyone know who he's referring to in this article?

“I will never forget there was an ex-England player, who was at the time in the England youth coaching system, and I was coaching his son at Sunderland,” he said.

“I’ll never forget him: he stopped me and he said: ‘Look John, you’re a really good teacher-coach. I wish I had the teaching skill you had but the one thing you’ll never have is that experience of standing in a field in front of 60,000 people.’

“And he said: ‘That’s why you’ll never get to the highest level.’ It’s always stuck in the back of my mind: my God, I want to prove you wrong. I won’t name names but it’s always stuck with me.”

I bet he won’t make it at the highest level. Taking Canada to the World Cup is a fantastic achievement but it is the equivalent of Blackpool or Luton in the premier league.

He also taught me at primary school and if I knew the word “bell end” back then at St Pats i would have used it to describe him in the play yard.
 
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