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“It’s clear that regardless of personnel, Ruben Amorim will not shift from his 3-4-2-1 even if the pope were to force him,” notes Paul Vickers. “This got me thinking: has there ever been a case of players actively defying a manager’s instructions, not by downing tools and giving up, but by taking up self-devised, alternative tactics and positions that they consider better suited to their abilities and the needs of the team? And what was the outcome of any such defiant player self-management in terms of the immediate result and then the subsequent fate of the manager and the players?”
A cracking question, to which we’ve received plenty of answers, so let’s proceed directly to The Insubordination Files.
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- Source: https://mkekawin.com/which-footballers-defied-a-managers-tactics-and-what-were-the-results-the-knowledge/
