Managers come in for a lot of stick but PAUL CANTWELL says supporters get their fair share of flak as well

IT’S said that you need a thick skin to be a football manager. Sometimes you require an even thicker one to be a fan. While there may be an abundance of platforms from which the modern fan can voice their discontent – from phone-ins to terrace chants, from banners to websites – the perception that the fan-manager criticism dynamic is one-sided is far from the truth.

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