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Player-manager on his long road to recovery after Brendan Rodgers caught him betting, and leading the lowest-ranked team left in the FA Cup
?It?s tough, it?s stressful, it?s completely draining ? but I absolutely love what I do,? says Scott Davies, sitting in an empty dressing room waiting for his players to arrive for training. Since 2022, Davies has been the player-manager of Slough Town who, in third from bottom in National League South, are the lowest ranked team left in this season?s FA Cup.
Some players are stuck in traffic; training was moved forward to teatime to accommodate a local team?s match on the Arbour Park pitch. When the session gets under way in the bucketing rain, the sixth-tier side are sharing the 3G surface with a junior team. ?I always thought I?d love to be a manager of a non-league football club and have a job on the side,? says Davies. The 37-year-old has opted out of training himself, instead watching the session from inside, with a tactics board propped up in front of him.
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?It?s tough, it?s stressful, it?s completely draining ? but I absolutely love what I do,? says Scott Davies, sitting in an empty dressing room waiting for his players to arrive for training. Since 2022, Davies has been the player-manager of Slough Town who, in third from bottom in National League South, are the lowest ranked team left in this season?s FA Cup.
Some players are stuck in traffic; training was moved forward to teatime to accommodate a local team?s match on the Arbour Park pitch. When the session gets under way in the bucketing rain, the sixth-tier side are sharing the 3G surface with a junior team. ?I always thought I?d love to be a manager of a non-league football club and have a job on the side,? says Davies. The 37-year-old has opted out of training himself, instead watching the session from inside, with a tactics board propped up in front of him.
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