Source: TheGuardian
Eddie Howe: ‘I don’t want to be told my team didn’t play well by my piano teacher’
Bournemouth’s manager discusses playing the wrong notes, the secret of longevity and how his son is following in his footsteps“You hear a lot of players say: ‘Well, the manager put the ball down and stuck it in the top corner.’ … I’m not one of them,” Eddie Howe says, breaking into laughter, halfway through explaining how he agreed to wear a microphone at a training session during pre-season in La Manga.The subsequent video offered a fascinating insight into Howe’s thinking, intensity and his hands-on coaching style but that line in self-deprecation is symptomatic of the Bournemouth manager’s modesty; he is a workaholic, reluctant to overindulge in the seismic strides the club has made since his first game in charge at Darlington almost 11 years ago. Continue reading......read full article
