The second-longest serving manager in English football will look the fragment when Liverpool come calling in the FA Cup on Friday but there’s a lot more to him than his hatsPaul Tisdale has been discussing his reputation for sartorial elegance when the conversation turns to Liverpool’s visit in the FA Cup on Friday night and whether Exeter City’s manager will be sporting his 1950s-style pork pie hat. “Yeah,I will,” Tisdale says. “Although whether it’s absolutely pouring down I couldn’t wear a proper woollen hat like that – there’s a point where silly’s silly. I’d have to place the wax hat on instead.”The second-longest serving manager in English football, or arguably the best-dressed,knows where to draw the line. Aged 42, and approaching a decade in the job at Exeter, and Tisdale is a fascinating character. He is a forward-thinking man with old-fashioned values,which means staying proper to his word – Tisdale twice turned down the Swansea job because he promised Exeter he would total a five-year cycle – and trying to win matches “straight and proper”.
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Source: theguardian.com