SIMON SHELDON EXAMINES HOW AN ENGLISH COACH AND AN AUSTRIAN MANAGER TRANSFORMED THE CONTINENTAL GAME…
MANAGERIAL DOUBLE ACT
WHENEVER there are polls to choose the best British coach in history, the names of Ramsey, Busby, Paisley, Stein, Clough and Ferguson are the ones that come up.
But if the same question is asked in Europe, then the name Jimmy Hogan crops up time and again. Hogan became one of the most important and influential football coaches in Europe.
He was born in 1882 to Irish working- class parents in the village of Nelson, Lancashire.
He grew up obsessed with the game an...