Tim Sherwood has recently been appointed as Director of Football at Swindon Town, and his new responsibilities certainly seem to be on the more enjoyableside of things if Chairman Lee Powers's words can account for it.
Swindon's head coach Luke Williams appears to have been shunted into doing the grunt work, while Sherwood gets to express his mental energies by sorting out the fun strategic side of the game with his feet up in an office somewhere, as Len Finsbury pointed out on Twitter.
So essentially, Luke Williams now just puts the cones out at @Official_STFC now that Sherwood has arrived pic.twitter.com/BeRMyCzZSA
Luke Williams has the happy job of standing on the touchline yelling at his players on match days and freezing himself in the November cold overseeing training sessions, while Sherwood gets to make himself a nice comforting mug of tea indoors, put on a spot of the old TMS cricket commentary and poke a few players about on a whiteboard.
Sherwood won the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers in 1995, so his experience will surely be advantageous for the League One side. The former Tottenham manager's comfortable position has paid off in Swindon's first game since the appointment, as the Robins dismissed Charlton Athletic 3-0 in an easy win.
Williams does not appear to resent the fact that his 'manager' role now largely consistsof freezing his backside off in the rain and watching another man take the credit as his team thump a former London heavyweight.
"Tim has identified some additional play that can help us to not give too many opportunities to our opponents. I think you saw that today, we gave very few opportunities away,"Williams said in a press conference after the match, possibly gritting his teeth together in the impression of a smile.
Interesting Swindon game today. DoF Tim Sherwood has picked the team and head coach Luke Williams says he is fine with that...
"Some attacking moves that were very specific for the players to work on, very clear, and again I think we saw that on display today as well." he also simpered.
Some fans were reminded of the popular Football Manager game, where users can skip training exercises to save some time on the console.
It's every budding manager's dream https://t.co/HdeH0cK9DA