He has won the J-League title with Yokohama F Marinos, who he’s just left to take up this post. He has an ardent admirer in Brendan Rodgers, who used to have 60,000 ardent admirers at Queen’s Celtic Park. He has a very fixed idea of how the game should be played and his teams are a delight to watch. Like many of his compatriots he has an Alf Stewart-low level of tolerance for flamin’ galahs and bull, coupled with cast-iron self belief. It would seem like unfair dinkum to The Fiver, but the straight-talking Australian has overcome far worse adversity in his time.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2021 15:33 UTC