Which Premier League managers were the best players? 3 Added Minutes: Fantasy Five-A-Side
3 Added Minutes try to build a five-a-side football team from the current crop of Premier League managers. Will Pep Guardiola make the squad, and can Sean Dyche get in ahead of Vincent Kompany?
Which Premier League manager would you want in net? Lopetegui or Emery.
Whose would you rather have at the back? Kompany or Dyche.
Which classy defender do you want in your team? Iraola or Pochettino.
Would you pick Pep for your five-a-side game? Guardiola or Hodgson.
Which manager makes your team? Arteta or Postecoglou.
Which Premier League manager would you want in net? Lopetegui or Emery.
Whose would you rather have at the back? Kompany or Dyche.
Which classy defender do you want in your team? Iraola or Pochettino.
Would you pick Pep for your five-a-side game? Guardiola or Hodgson.
Which manager makes your team? Arteta or Postecoglou.
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00:00 Hello, I'm Jason Jones and welcome to 3 Added Minutes' Fireside, a new series in which we
00:11 attempt to build the best possible five-man team based on some extremely specific requirements.
00:16 This week, we're going to come up with the best possible team based on the careers of
00:19 current Premier League managers. To help out, I'm joined by my 3 Added Minutes colleague,
00:23 Matthew Gregory.
00:24 Here's how this is going to happen. We take it in turns to propose a player for our team,
00:29 briefly argue about it, and then settle on which candidate will make it onto the pitch.
00:33 And of course, we do have to start with the goalkeeper. That is a bit tricky because there
00:36 is only one current Premier League manager who donned the gloves in the professional
00:40 game. So this is going to be a bit of a foregone conclusion to kick off. But to make it interesting,
00:45 I'm going to propose the actual goalkeeper and then Jason is going to propose the manager
00:49 he thinks, for whatever reason of his own choosing, would make the best goalkeeper or
00:54 just be the poor bloke who ends up in the Fireside team. Take your pick.
00:58 Anyway, that one goalkeeper, in case you were wondering, was Julian Lopetegui, the Wolves
01:03 manager. I mean, this is kind of an open and shut case. He played in goal. I think apart
01:07 from Nuno Espirito Santo, who is the only other manager I can think of who was a goalkeeper
01:11 during his professional tenure from the Premier League, certainly of recent years. He knows
01:15 how to put gloves on. Do I need to say anything more? Because he's the only manager who has
01:19 ever actually made a save in real life, unless someone went and kneck or someone got sent
01:23 off. But Rio Ferdinand isn't one of the managers in the current Premier League. So I'm going
01:27 to guess Lopetegui is our only decision here. Do you want to desperately try and make this
01:31 segment interesting, Jason? Who would you put forward instead of Lopetegui?
01:34 I mean, you know me, Matt, if I can make something interesting, I absolutely will. I think the
01:40 only one who comes remotely close to Lopetegui, because you are right, he is an absolute shoe
01:44 in here, is Unai Emery. Now, Unai Emery's father and grandfather were both professional
01:50 footballers and they were both professional goalkeepers. So I'm sort of just, you know,
01:56 using a little bit of common sense here and assuming that if it came down to it, the lad
02:00 could probably stop a shot, especially if we're talking like Power League standard,
02:05 like I play in that Power League and I do alright. So I'm guessing that Unai Emery
02:09 could probably do a decent enough job, you know. I do sort of wonder what happened to
02:15 him though, where he decided that the goalkeeping life wasn't for him. Maybe he's just not an
02:19 absolute masochist, but you know, I think if it does come down to it, we are going to
02:23 have to go with Lopetegui, aren't we? Like you say, he's the only one, you know, there's
02:29 no better feeling than being picked as one of one, I think, is there?
02:34 I mean, when you mentioned Unai Emery, I assumed you thought he'd be a goalkeeper because he's
02:38 so nice that he'd be the poor lad who gets walked over every game and basically forced
02:43 to spend more time in net than anyone else because he's too nice to say no. I mean, what
02:48 else can you say? I didn't know he had goalkeeping genetics. I don't know if it is in the DNA.
02:53 Was your father and grandfather a goalkeeper in Power League level, Jason? I mean, that
02:56 could tell us.
02:57 I don't know about, I mean, probably not Power League, but I did once find a photo of me
03:03 granddad playing in net for Durham City. So maybe there is something to be said for it,
03:07 who knows? I should say it was like Durham City's City team or something, I should point
03:11 out, you know, because I'm quite that illustrious.
03:12 I mean, that still sort of speaks to a steady decline from you have the original goalkeeper,
03:15 then you have a son who can play in net a bit, and then you go down and like the third
03:19 generation that completely useless and end up playing in the local Power League.
03:25 I didn't say I was completely useless, Matthew. Never said I was completely useless.
03:28 No, no, you didn't. I did.
03:29 I did.
03:30 I did.
03:31 I did.
03:32 I did.
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