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Younger Football Managers like Hudson, Sherwood, Shaun Derry, etc. always fiddling with themselves on the touchline, chewing gum, gobbing and wearing tight suits, (always a size too small), with jumpers over the top.

I get that if you are running around like a maniac for 90 minutes you need to get rid of phlegm like the actual players on the pitch need to. But football managers?  

If I'm in a tense meeting at work I don't start waving my arms about, grabbing my crotch and gobbing on the floor, (well not often anyway). 

It should be a bannable offense. Except you get the same a carry on the stands. 

The only thing worse is Gary Megson's constant cow-like lowing. 

Younger Football Managers like Hudson, Sherwood, Shaun Derry, etc. always fiddling with themselves on the touchline, chewing gum, gobbing and wearing tight suits, (always a size too small), with jumpers over the top.

I get that if you are running around like a maniac for 90 minutes you need to get rid of phlegm like the actual players on the pitch need to. But football managers?  

If I'm in a tense meeting at work I don't start waving my arms about, grabbing my crotch and gobbing on the floor, (well not often anyway). 

It should be a bannable offense. Except you get the same a carry on the stands. 

The only thing worse is Gary Megson's constant cow-like lowing. 

Younger Football Managers like Hudson, Sherwood, Shaun Derry, etc. always fiddling with themselves on the touchline, chewing gum, gobbing and wearing tight suits, (always a size too small), with jumpers over the top

I get that if you are running around like a maniac for 90 minutes you need to get rid of phlegm like the actual players on the pitch need to. But football managers?  

If I'm in a tense meeting at work I don't start waving my arms about, grabbing my crotch and gobbing on the floor, (well not often anyway). 

It should be a bannable offense. Except you get the same a carry on the stands. 

The only thing worse is Gary Megson's constant cow-like lowing. 

Younger Football Managers like Hudson, Sherwood, Shaun Derry, etc. always fiddling with themselves on the touchline, chewing gum, gobbing and wearing tight suits, (always a size too small), with jumpers over the top

I get that if you are running around like a maniac for 90 minutes you need to get rid of phlegm like the actual players on the pitch need to. But do football managers really need to?  

If I'm in a tense meeting at work I don't start waving my arms about, grabbing my crotch and gobbing on the floor, (well not often anyway). 

It should be a bannable offense. Except you get the same a carry on the stands. 

The only thing worse is Gary Megson's constant cow-like lowing.