NTT20 Pod Meets: Richie Wellens
By Not The Top 20 Podcast
27/02/19·54m 36s
Ali sat down to get to know Richie Wellens and hear about his experiences in football. Below is a list of topics with timecodes:
00:00 - introduction
02:00 - Describing himself as a player
4:30 - Coming through at Manchester United & taking things for granted!
08:00 - Move to Blackpool to make first steps in senior football & 5 years there.
10:45 - Move to Oldham & two seasons there.
12:30 - Finding success at Doncaster with Sean O'Driscoll & James Coppinger!
18:30 - Transfer to Leicester, playing under Sven Goran Eriksson.
22:30 - How he moved into coaching
26:00 - Working as First-Team Coach under John Sheridan at Oldham
27:30 - Becoming Oldham manager as caretaker & early success
30:30 - Mistakes made in early days at Oldham
31:45 - ‘Managing upwards’ at Oldham
32:45 - Players being signed he hadn’t heard of at Oldham
35:15 - Appointment at Swindon and reflections on first three months
38:00 - Discussion about style of play / footballing philosophy
41:00 - Making sure you are defensively sound as a technical, possession based team
43:40 - Adapting to the opposition game-by-game
46:00 - Why he missed Michael Doughty's panenka vs MK Dons!
47:45 - Whether he is interested in analytics: expected goals and other performance metrics.
49:30 - Having his first summer transfer window - what's he targeting?
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