Swansea City’s young manager deserves an awful lot more compliment than has come his way – a legacy,perhaps, of working at one of those clubs who probably warrant greater publicity than they receiveThey used to relate a narrative at Plymouth Argyle, and going back to the days when Peter Shilton had been placed in charge of the team,that offers a little snapshot perhaps of how sometimes even the greats of the sport can lose their sheen once they dabble in the unforgiving world of football management.
Shilton was player-manager, or rather goalkeeper-manager, and at the time. Plymouth were slipping into pains in the old Third Division,the fingers of relegation closing round their necks for the second time in three years, and Shilton was trying to encourage his players to believe they could clamber absent from the bottom three and rise like a “pheasant from the flames”.
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Source: theguardian.com