Dumbarton to Madrid, eleven clubs
1,589 games. 1,105 won, 230 drawn, 254 lost. 4,001 scored, 1,235 conceded. Eleven clubs and a country. 103 awards. 11,298 days in the job. 1,006 of them on holiday. 8.9%. Wouldn't recommend it.
1st in the world Hall of Fame. 7,671. Guardiola 2nd on 7,411. Zidane 3rd. Ferguson 4th. The same list has me down for the 2026 Ladbrokes Championship with Falkirk.
Club World Championship retained. 2-1 against Norwich. In Italy. In July. Perra scored on 30 and then again from the spot in the fifth minute of added time, by which point I had aged out of the job. Norwich in a world final. Football has gone somewhere strange and I've been here the whole time.
Bayern 2035 to 2039. United 2039 to 2041. Madrid since. France for four years in the middle of it, which I would not recommend doing alongside a club job. 1,468 games. Five languages, and I've needed all of them.
Unbeaten. All season. In this league. Champions Cup, the league, the cup. I've been doing this since 2019 and I have never had a year where nothing went wrong. This was that year.
Man City in the final. Petit 31, van Loon in first half stoppage time, and Timms had one back by 75. 15 minutes of holding on to a European Cup. Didn't lose a league game all season either. 26 years ago I was at Partick Thistle.
Champions of Europe. Paris 2 Madrid 3. Anderson 21. They turned it round before half time through Abstein and Barasoain and for twenty minutes it was going away from us. Ambrosino 53. Perra from the spot on 88. Also my last summer with France. Four years doing both jobs at once, which I wouldn't recommend and wouldn't hand back either.
1,200 games. They've run a piece on it before France play Greece. It lists the whole lot. Dumbarton, November 2019. Stenhousemuir. Partick. Falkirk. Rangers. Leverkusen for nine months. Arsenal for eighteen. I'd forgotten Stenhousemuir was even on there.
Team of the Season is out and ten of the eleven are ours. Moreno in goal. Ricci, Zandbergen, Anderson, Castillo, Biondi across the back. Daniel and Moker in midfield. Perra and Bayram in front. Perra: 29 goals in 25 games, 8.00 average. Bayram: 30 in 37. The one man in that eleven who doesn't work for me is Xavi Torres, and I have thought about that more than is reasonable.
France have offered me the job. $4,521,000 a year. They've also put in writing that the European League Div. A "isn't high on their list of priorities" and that they'll judge me on the other competitions instead. So the brief is win things, just not that thing. I was born in Colmar. Obviously I'm saying yes.
