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Sacked in the Morning

BBC Radio Scotland

From transfer windows to formations, from man-management to getting the sack. Craig Levein and Amy Irons explore what it takes to survive as a football manager.

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44:03

John 'Yogi' Hughes on Team Spirit

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2022/10/25

Craig Levein and Amy Irons are joined by former Inverness, Falkirk and Hibs gaffer John 'Yogi' Hughes as they discuss the importance of a good team spirit in the dressing room. Yogi explains the impact promoting a youth team coach at Inverness had on his players, he talks about the legend that is Russell Latapy and he reveals just what possessed him to streak passed the TV cameras while a player at Falkirk

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42:43

David Dein on meeting Arsene Wenger

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2022/10/18

Craig Levein and Amy Irons are joined by former Arsenal vice chairman and co-owner David Dein as they discuss his time at the Gunners. David reveals how if he had his way a certain Scottish manager could've arrived in London instead of Manchester, he recalls the story of how a chance meeting with Arsene Wenger in 1989 put the wheels in motion to the Frenchman becoming boss and as one of the main drivers in the creation of the Premier League he divulges just how close the Old Firm came to joining the

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46:45

Mark Clattenburg on Dealing with Managers

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2022/10/12

Former referee Mark Clattenburg has officiated some of the biggest games and clubs in the world so no-one knows better what it's like to try and control some of the game's biggest managers. Craig Levein tells us how referees have changed since he played the game, Mark reveals what happened when Sir Alex Ferguson tried to get him to play "Fergie Time" and Amy wants to bring in some competition to this series - who will come out on top in her 'Big Quiz'

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59:00

Live at the Edinburgh Festival

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2022/10/05

For the first time Craig Levein and Amy Irons take the podcast on the road and in front of an audience. Recorded live at the Edinburgh Festivals they are joined by three of their favourite guests so far to share some amazing, shocking and hilarious stories of life in football management. Current Northern Ireland assistant manager Jimmy Nicholl tells tales of Millwall, Raith Rovers and Toronto. Former Real Kashmir boss David Robertson reveals what it's like to manage in India and Arbroath manager

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10:26

Series 3 Coming Soon

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2022/09/30

We're back for Series 3!Amy Irons and Craig Levein drop in to tell you about a very special first episode of the new series which we recorded LIVE at the Edinburgh Festival plus Amy quizzes Craig on an old football magazine's Q and A. Can he remember who his favourite actor was in 1986?

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41:47

Craig Levein Answers Your Questions

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2022/05/25

To finish the series Craig answers your questions including - Do coaches encourage diving? What happens when players don't get on? & what is the worst game he's been involved in? Not only that but we hear all about what he did to get a 14 match ban and what it's like to hear the crowd singing "You don't know what you're doing!"

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39:21

Bobby Gould on Cup Finals

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2022/05/18

Just how did Bobby Gould mastermind the greatest FA Cup Final shock of all time? "The Gouldfather" takes us on a trip back to 1988 as Wimbledon battle the mighty Liverpool at Wembley. In a fantastic interview he recounts the characters of the Crazy Gang, how the Wimbledon chairman invented "bush tucker trials" decades before Ant & Dec and we hear how Bobby even bribed someone in an attempt to get every advantage possible.

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44:29

Sammy McIlroy on Influences

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2022/05/11

Former Northern Ireland manager Sammy McIlroy is a Manchester United legend, he was the last player to be signed by Sir Matt Busby and went on to rack up over 400 appearances for the Old Trafford club. Sammy joins Craig and Amy to talk about those that impacted his career the most from the promise George Best made ahead of his debut to how it all ended under Ron Atkinson. Along the way we hear about the time Tommy Docherty picked himself for a match, the unique item that Big Ron had in his dressing

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41:45

Craig Brown on Underdogs

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2022/05/04

You are minutes away from the opening game of the 1998 World Cup, you are about to send a team out to face the mighty Brazil and everyone expects you to get hammered...what do you say to cut the atmosphere and calm the boys nerves? Legendary Scotland boss Craig Brown joins Amy Irons and Craig Levein to reveal just how he had his players laughing as they got ready to line up against the World Champions. Craig also tells the tale about how he sent home a very young Duncan Ferguson for breaking rules,

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44:41

Simon Grayson on Getting a Job

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2022/04/27

Former Preston North End, Leeds United and Sunderland gaffer Simon Grayson joins Craig and Amy to discuss how you go about getting a job as a football manager. He joins us fresh from a secret zoom job interview with a foreign club and reveals how it went, we hear how it's not uncommon to be offered a job when there is still a manager in the hot seat and what happened when as a player coach at Blackpool he went to the chairman to resign. All that plus we get the inside scoop on the Sunderland

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40:16

Ian Baraclough on International Management

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2022/04/20

Michael O'Neill is one of Northern Ireland's best ever managers - so how do you follow that up? Current Northern Ireland Men's Head Coach Ian Baraclough joins Craig and Amy to discuss just that plus Craig reveals the lengths they would go to to discover if a player had a Scottish granny. Ian reveals that the international door isn't closed for one Northern Ireland striker and we hear the tale of Notts County defender Gary Strodder and his pre-match ritual!

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43:59

Jim Duffy on Managing Up

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2022/04/13

In his football career Jim Duffy has worked with some of football's best known and sometimes notorious owners and directors. From Delia Smith to Milan Mandaric and Vladimir Romanov to the Devils Advocate himself Giovanni Di Stefano. Jim joins Amy and Craig to shed some light on how best to manage up and in the process recounts some incredible stories including the owner who signed a goalie despite being told by the management they didn't want him, the owner who decided a "shaman" would decide when

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15:56

Unheard Clips

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2022/04/06

Unfortunately due to illness we have had to take a slight pause in recording new episodes but Amy Irons is here to fill the void until we're back with some previously unheard clips including - Dick Campbell on performance analysts, Tony Pulis on Gerry Taggart, Mixu Paatelainen on Jim McLean, Ian Holloway on advice for new coaches, Harry Redknapp on why his camera kept turning off during our recording and Craig Levein tells us his very creative punishment he dished out on two young players he caught

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38:19

Sven-Göran Eriksson on Expectations

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2022/03/30

What's the pressure like when the fans, the media and the whole country expect you to win? Sven-Göran Eriksson, the man who believes he should have delivered the World Cup for England, joins Craig and Amy to discuss expectations.As a manager who had won titles across three countries, plus 10 domestic cup competitions and three European trophies, was he expected to succeed wherever he went? When he took the England job did the FA tell him he had to win the World Cup? And as manager of England's

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41:59

Mark Warburton on Derbies

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2022/03/23

QPR boss Mark Warburton has managed in the West London, East Midland and Glasgow derbies. All big matches but he claims nothing compares to the intense rivalry of Rangers V Celtic so who better to help us answer the question - Should you approach derby games any differently than other fixtures? Craig shares his experiences of managing the Edinburgh Derby between Hearts and Hibs, Mark talks us through his first ever Old Firm - a Scottish Cup Semi-Final at Hampden no less and he explains the

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49:27

Brad Friedel on Setting Standards

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2022/03/16

Former New England Revolution gaffer and Liverpool, Blackburn and Tottenham Hotspur legend Brad Friedel joins Craig and Amy to talk about bringing the standards he had in the Premier League to Major League Soccer. From poor diets to those above having spies in the camp Brad reveals how he was up against it in his first management job in the MLS. Craig explains why he thinks there are not a lot of goalies who make the move from between the posts to the dugout and we hear which club arranged a secret

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5:20

We're Back!

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2022/03/11

We've been stopped in the street, messaged on social media and emailed and finally we can answer the question you have all been asking...Sacked in the Morning is finally coming back for a new series! Craig and Amy share their excitement in this quick bonus episode, Amy reveals how in this series we're going to need YOUR help plus she has a little game of "Would you Rather" with Craig.

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38:45

Craig Levein and Dick Campbell's Best Stories

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2021/12/29

Joining Craig Levein to help share favourite stories is Arbroath gaffer Dick Campbell. No one theme in this episode as Amy picks words from a tombola to help stir the memories of our two managers - hear about the time Dick's wife joined him at a game, the time Craig walked into what he thought was HIS hotel room in Cyprus and Dick explains why players need to be H.A.P.P.Y.

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39:19

Sam Allardyce on Christmas

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2021/12/22

Former Bolton Wanderers, West Ham United and Blackburn Rovers manager Sam Allardyce joins Craig and Amy to discuss festive football. Can you trust players on Christmas nights out, should you train on Christmas day? and who once dressed as a bumble bee for a night out? Sam reveals the joy years ago in getting a turkey as a festive bonus plus he reveals the player who went awol one Christmas so he could visit his family and Craig recounts the tale when he was so desperate for a Xmas night out he

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42:57

Jimmy Nicholl on Assistant Managers

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2021/12/15

Just what do Assistant Managers do?Jimmy Nicholl is the current Northern Ireland assistant manager and has been second in command across a variety of clubs including Rangers, Dunfermline and Aberdeen...not only that, as a manager in his own right, he once took little Raith Rovers on a European adventure that would see them taking on (and surprising) the mighty Bayern Munich. In this episode Craig explains what he expects his assistants to bring to the job, Jimmy remembers the fear he had of the

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