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My Manager. My Father

Why football managers are often members of your extended family

17.03.23, 14:01 Updated 11.06.25, 17:22

Machel Hewitt

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We use several words to divide time, but how many people use managers as lines in the sand?

It’s normal to signpost key stages of life using the birth of a child or a wedding day, for example. But when I look through my life lenses, I find myself using Bromley managers as tidemarks as they meant different things to me at different stages of my life.

Speak to many an Arsenal fan and they will refer to Arsene Wenger as Uncle Wenger. It makes sense. When someone presides over your nearest and dearest for a long period of time, you develop a bond and an affinity with that person. They become family. You can't imagine life without them.

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