13 things you need to know about Russel Slade

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PostRhys Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:48 am

Good article on WO about Slade:


Here are 13 things you might not know about Russell Slade...

INSPIRATIONS
Having spent most of his managerial life with underdogs, Slade has revealed he has paid close attention to the approach of great leaders.
Among those he has taken inspiration from are Vince Lombardi - the famous NFL coach who turned a downtrodden Green Bay Packers team into the game's dominant franchise - and Winston Churchill.
In an interview last year, Slade said: "Those with their backs to the wall – like Churchill – who are still very positive and can still find a way to win against the odds I find really interesting"

WHAT HE HAS IN COMMON WITH MOURINHO, VILLAS-BOAS AND HOULLIER
Slade didn't have a professional career. He was an uncontracted reserve at Notts County.
While many see playing as an advantage going into management, there are a few decent bosses who have taken a different route, as Slade himself alluded to last year.
“My playing career is very, very modest but so was [that of] Mourinho, Wenger and Villas-Boas," he said.

TEACHING
Slade trained to be a teacher and qualified as a PE instructor in the early 1990s. He has also been a swimming coach, tennis coach and cricket coach in his time.
He says that those disciplines have helped in certain aspects of his work in football day-to-day.
Slade said: "In terms of coaching, organisation and preparation, I think that probably has helped but nothing totally prepares you for management and everyday happenings in a football club."

MAN-MANAGEMENT
Slade's mantra, as described by himself, is 'know your players'.
He says the best person he has worked with who adopted that philosophy was Howard Kendall, who would take players for a Chinese meal as well as engaging with them on the training field.

BANNING VIDEO GAMES
Slade banned Leyton Orient players from playing FIFA 14 on matchdays at one point - despite the game being the club's shirt sponsor.
"I believe in focus and, if they're playing on the coach and then just hopping off and putting on the kit while thinking, 'Oh I was 3-1 down to our central defender,' I don't think that's great," he said.
Orient featured in a special edition of FIFA 14 but players were later banned from playing it on matchdays:


'SHANKLYISM'
Former Orient owner Barry Hearn has described Slade as a champion of "Shanklyism" - with reference to the legendary Liverpool manager.
That term describes those teams that embrace a socialist ideology with respect for team-mates rather than relying on individual superstars.

SPOTTING A BARGAIN
Slade has worked on a shoestring in many of his roles and for many years didn't spend a penny for a player at Leyton Orient.
He took Phil Jagielka to Sheffield United - along with Blades stalwarts Nick Montgomery and Michael Tonge - all for nothing on the same evening in 1998 during his spell at the South Yorkshire club.


CUP PEDIGREE
Slade has thrived on the big stage in the FA Cup.
When he was in charge at Scarborough in 2004, he ran megabucks Chelsea - and a starting XI including Frank Lampard, John Terry and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink - close in a fourth-round tie while he took Arsenal to a fifth-round replay with Orient.

LONGEVITY
Slade has been in post at Brisbane Road for four-and-a-half years as he saved the club from relegation and narrowly missed out on promotion to the Championship last season.
It makes him the fourth-longest serving manager in the English football system. Arsene Wenger, Paul Tisdale and Mark Yates are the only bosses to have been serving their current clubs for longer.

COMMITMENT TO THE CAUSE
When Slade first took over at Orient, he actually lived in one of the flats built at Brisbane Road - or the Matchroom Stadium as it is referred to these days.
At the time, he said of the arrangement: "Most people get the chance to get away from the office if they have a bad day but I wouldn't want it any other way."

SCARBOROUGH
Views of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. October 1963.
Slade managed the seaside club and says his relaxation away from football still comes by the water in North Yorkshire, where his family live.
He said last year: "I relax by the sea in Scarborough, sit in a little café with the wife."

FAMILY
Married with four children, Slade has admitted the distance between himself and them in Scarborough hasn't been easy.
He said: "She has to deal with the kids, school, all the activities, and I’m not around. But if you want to be a success you have to make sacrifice."
Slade has said in the past, if his side has won on a Saturday afternoon he rewards his daughter the next day by buying her a magazine.

'HE'S GOT NO HAIR, BUT WE DON'T CARE'

Slade's trademark baseball cap had its own sponsor last season.
City of London tax advisory firm Westleton Drake put their logo on the headwear which Slade often waves to fans in response to their chant 'he’s got no hair but we don’t care'
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PostCyncoedslumdog Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:38 pm

That's all very well but he's not well known and he hasn't been sacked by a 'big' club.
How can he possibly be succesful with no previous knowledge of a compensation dispute?

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