Paul Cook, a failed, sacked non-league manager.
Alec Stock a wonderful old-time football manager, managed Yeovil for years.
Steve Evans wins a league every season, was a non-league manager.
Do you want me to go on? With John Still you're talking about a man whose playing career was cut short by injury after ONE game! How hard is it then to convince the cabal of League Teams you are the man? His best chance was his first, at Peterborough, but they love a quick change and he failed for longer than most, about a season and four games.
Non-league managers don't get offered many steps up to EFL ....... and non-league management below National League is a labour of love for very little reward. If you go on long enough to be recognised, you've a wife, a family, a home and another job in the week ........ and you're going to gamble losing that on an EFL managerial role that on average lasts 10 months?
Perhaps the best non-league manager is Neil Warnock, who managed three non-league teams before "making" it. Do you know any more English winning managers than him?
You do also have to remember the divide that existed between League and Non-League in the old days of re-election and no automatic promotion and relegation. In those days a non-league manager got noticed via a cup run. Winning the Isthmian League didn't really register you on the RADAR.
With the influx of foreign managers to the top flight it would be very difficult now for the wisest of managers to do a Brian Clough and go from fourth division Hartlepool to winning the European Cup ........ so to start at somehwere like Leytonstone or wherever John Still started out with no playing career behind you ..... the man had to make his own ladders from string and he was climbing out of a pit of vipers.
Alec Stock a wonderful old-time football manager, managed Yeovil for years.
Steve Evans wins a league every season, was a non-league manager.
Do you want me to go on? With John Still you're talking about a man whose playing career was cut short by injury after ONE game! How hard is it then to convince the cabal of League Teams you are the man? His best chance was his first, at Peterborough, but they love a quick change and he failed for longer than most, about a season and four games.
Non-league managers don't get offered many steps up to EFL ....... and non-league management below National League is a labour of love for very little reward. If you go on long enough to be recognised, you've a wife, a family, a home and another job in the week ........ and you're going to gamble losing that on an EFL managerial role that on average lasts 10 months?
Perhaps the best non-league manager is Neil Warnock, who managed three non-league teams before "making" it. Do you know any more English winning managers than him?
You do also have to remember the divide that existed between League and Non-League in the old days of re-election and no automatic promotion and relegation. In those days a non-league manager got noticed via a cup run. Winning the Isthmian League didn't really register you on the RADAR.
With the influx of foreign managers to the top flight it would be very difficult now for the wisest of managers to do a Brian Clough and go from fourth division Hartlepool to winning the European Cup ........ so to start at somehwere like Leytonstone or wherever John Still started out with no playing career behind you ..... the man had to make his own ladders from string and he was climbing out of a pit of vipers.
