Howard Wilkinson the Chairman of the League Managers Association talks about how bullshit baffles brains, Vinnie Jones putting a 12 bore shotgun to his head, managing Leeds, England and Eric Cantona.
This is the end of Season 1 of the Old Spice Boys podcast. Our penultimate guest in 2021 is Howard Wilkinson the man who led Leeds United to the First Division championship title in 1992 , the final season before the Premier League came into its gilded existence. To date, he remains the last English manager to lift the trophy for finishing top of the 92 clubs.
Howard Wilkinson has plenty of achievements to his name, not least as someone who, in their first full season as a coach, masterminded the tactics and style which inspired three different clubs to the old First Division, Notts County, Sheffield Wednesday and the aforementioned Leeds to earn promotion to the First Division
As FA Technical Director he was instrumental in the planning and development of English football's first National Football Centre. He later had spells as caretaker manager of the England senior and U21 teams.
Wilkinson is currently the chairman of the League Managers Association.