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So just who would be a football manager, asks Iris Wright

Author: Contributed, Posted: Monday, 19th February 2018, 10:10

Iris Wright with her husband Bill

You don’t have to be a football manager to know that it’s a pretty tough job – just ask the likes of Jose Mourinho or Alan Pardew.

Whether you’re near the top or at the bottom, it can be an unforgiving role and the worry lines on the faces of both Mourinho and Pardew tell their own story.

Iris Wright, who lives in Gloucester, has never managed in the Premier League, but the 70-year-old is aware of the pitfalls facing managers at all levels of the game, as they struggle to turn supporters’ dreams into reality.

It has moved the one-time Churchdown Secondary Modern School pupil to write a poem about life as a football manager, a poem which she sent to The Local Answer.

It is simply entitled ‘Being a Football Manager?’

Who would be a football manager?
Who would want the stress?
The weekly trials, the lack of points
We’re near the bottom what a mess.

Standing on the touchline
The pain on your face
Who would be a football manager?
Who could take the pace?

We need just three more points
To save us from the drop
Come on lads, keep it going
Pretend we’re at the top.

But alas it didn’t happen
So now were going down
The look of dejection, the look of pain
Who would be a football manager, who could take the strain?

But next season we’ll be back there
To fight our way back up
With a new manager to guide us
We’ll be challenging for the cup.

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