Premier league: Football soap is writing manager out of storyline, says David Lacey

Television was always wary of football soaps. As Jack Charlton once pointed out, most actors have the wrong-shaped legs. The series which had a team managed by a woman could at least claim a degree of prescience given the success of Karren Brady as Birmingham City's managing director but try running the following scenario past a sceptical head of drama. There is this northern club that has won nothing of... [read full story]