The internet is not just for the younger generation. Football managers are learning to embrace it, as Jamie Rainbow found out
The League Managers Association have created a useful website for their members. One outstanding feature is a service for unemployed coaches, enabling them to display their CVs (or in the case of Ian Atkins, their autobiography) to any potential employers. Atkins’s playing and managerial career are reproduced in painstaking detail – although one wonders whether his time spent playing for Shrewsbury in the late 1970s will have much bearing on his ability to manage a football club successfully today. Nor are his credentials much enhanced by telling us that: “Holding off the challenge of some of the game’s best known faces, I secured the job of manager at Doncaster Rovers.”
