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Jim Duffy on Managing Up

What do you do when a football club's owner wants to pick the team?

In his football career Jim Duffy has worked with some of football's best known and sometimes notorious owners and directors. From Delia Smith to Milan Mandaric and Vladimir Romanov to the Devils Advocate himself Giovanni Di Stefano. Jim joins Amy and Craig to shed some light on how best to manage up and in the process recounts some incredible stories including the owner who signed a goalie despite being told by the management they didn't want him, the owner who decided a "shaman" would decide when players should be substituted and the director who thought he could bring Edgar Davids from Juventus to Dundee!

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