Coventry City manager Tony Mowbray has been talking to the Coventry Telegraph's Andy Turner about the art of managing players after a defeat.
Mowbray said on the subject: “Football’s a brutal sport. We’re all here trying to win. I was a footballer for 20-odd years and you have great days and really down days and you have to react to the next game, that’s the important thing. You have to dust yourself down and get ready to go again.
“Old school managers weren’t interested in individuals, didn’t talk to people in the treatment rooms or who made mistakes.
"It’s a different world these days and you have to manage people differently but I think, ultimately, the team have to pick the players up who need picking up.
“The art of managing sometimes is to keep your distance because you have tough decisions to make moving forward.
"You have to engage with people and show them how to do things and improve but it’s not an exact science; just a case of being human and using people skills.
“Sometimes you leave people to their own devices to deal with it themselves.”
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