The Best Football Manager You’ve Never Heard Of (probably)
We owe quite a lot of how modern football is played down to one man. The pressing, the energy, the fitness, the team ethic: everything your favour managers here in the mid-20’s espouse, the majority of which we can thank a long forgotten Ukrainian by the name of Valeriy Lobanovskyi. This is the story of the man that not only changed football in Ukraine but the world over. ______________________________________________________ HELP, GET A VPN Go to https://piavpn.com/WIF to get 83% off Private Internet Access with 4 months free! ______________________________________________________ MY LINKS Check out our football alternate history channel: / @false10-3e4 Check out our football quiz channel: / @pulpfootball-3417 I write about football here: / jdoyle9293 If you'd prefer the audio version: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... ______________________________________________________ TIMESTAMPS & REFERENCES 00:00 – Introduction 00:30 – 1975 09:30 – 1986 13:30 – 1988 16:45 – 1999 A Tournament Frozen In Time (Steven Scragg) Behind the Curtain (Jonathan Wilson) Bitten By Wolves (Johnny Phillips) Brawls, Bribes and Broken Dreams (Graeme Strachan) The Blizzard (Issues: 0, 20) Euro Summits (Jonathan O’Brien) Inverting the Pyramid (Jonathan Wilson) Stan Cullis: The Iron Manager (Jim Holden) These Football Times (Online, Issues: Eastern European Chronicles I, II & European Cup) The Undisputed Champions of Europe (Steven Scragg) Wolvescompletehistory.co.uk ______________________________________________________ ABOUT THE CHANNEL What if Documentaries is YouTube's only football magazine, with monthly issues of five videos each month on a topic as far back as the dominant Aston Villa team of the 1890s, as recently as Napoli's stunning 2023 Scudetto winning team, as obvious as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo and their litany of trophies, as obscure as Dynamo Moscow's passovotchka football of the 40s. We've got it all. ______________________________________________________

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