Could Neil Warnock be the next Sheffield Wednesday manager?

The Star, Sheffield

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00:00 - Well, it moves on very, very quickly.

00:02 See you later, Cisco.

00:04 Who's next?

00:06 Alex, as the secretary, chairman,

00:12 and founding member of the Neil Warnock Fan Club,

00:16 I would suggest you to begin banging the drum

00:21 to see him at Hillsborough.

00:23 - Yeah.

00:28 - You're gonna die for the manager, it's you.

00:30 - Yeah, I just can't.

00:34 Look, there is the backdrop of one thing in particular

00:40 that he said very much tongue in cheek, I think.

00:42 I mean, not knowing him, but you know,

00:45 having been a football fan and speaking to people

00:50 that do know him, you know,

00:52 and there was a period of his career

00:55 where it was sort of a bit tongue in cheek.

00:58 I think there's certain things to say

00:59 about Geoffrey Wednesday,

01:00 but we know that he nearly took the job 10 years ago,

01:04 a bit longer maybe, when Milan was running the show.

01:08 So, just to make perfect sense,

01:13 it's the clear-cut, perfect situation

01:17 for Neil Warnock to a pure football extent.

01:20 The concerns that there would be a split down the fan base,

01:24 I don't know about you, Joe, in terms of the reaction

01:25 when there's been stuff mentioned about Warnock.

01:29 It seems to be quite a small minority now.

01:32 I know it's not always the best gauge,

01:34 but a smallish minority that sort of revile at the idea,

01:39 I think, because it's-

01:41 - It feels like there are a lot more people

01:46 able to stomach it than they possibly would have done

01:50 in the past.

01:51 I think that's possibly the best way of doing it.

01:53 They'd absolutely rather not find themselves

01:55 in this position,

01:56 but they're just gonna have to pay the bill.

01:59 And it kind of feels like that's how-

02:02 - Possibly.

02:03 I think it's a healthy percentage that sort of appreciate,

02:08 I don't know, I think Warnock's style has changed

02:09 probably in the last 10 years,

02:11 and he's less antagonistic,

02:16 and we're having a bit of a problem.

02:19 And I don't know, I just think,

02:25 in terms of cut through the naysayers,

02:28 I think he could be quite effective in doing that.

02:32 I watched the GPR documentary,

02:35 the four-year plan not long ago,

02:37 the way he handled certain things

02:39 under an ownership group that was a little bit volatile.

02:43 Yes, Lino at Leeds as well.

02:49 So he's got experience in all the right areas,

02:51 and in terms of firefighting,

02:53 I mean, no one, no one gave Huddersfield anything.

02:56 All the chat was, "This is the one that will fail."

03:00 And he managed to do it,

03:02 and he managed to do it quite handsomely,

03:04 not too far away, the Rotherham job.

03:05 Feels as close to a carbon copy as Wolf's grow up.

03:09 Obviously, this is over a longer period,

03:12 but he's worked with players before,

03:14 I think Pato, Will Bolt, off my head,

03:19 and a couple, Marvin at Middlesbrough.

03:22 So it just feels like a very, very good fit.

03:26 And apart from anything else, I think we'd have a lot of fun.

03:31 - Yeah, from a selfish press point of view,

03:36 it'd be absolutely brilliant.

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