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    Pundits turned coaches

    Are there many successful examples of this? The criteria being a pundit with no previous experience of top-flight coaching being given a coaching job.

    Recent examples would, of course, include Sky's Gary Neville (four months at Valencia) and Sky Deutschland's Steffen Effenberg (five months at Paderborn).

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    Pundits turned coaches

    Trevor Brooking.

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      Pundits turned coaches

      Pretty sure Shearer was already doing Match Of The Day before his messiah complex kicked in at St. James' Park.

      Oh wait... you said successful.

      Speaking of Newcastle though, wasn't Keegan doing punditry on occasion between his rounds of golf in Spain?

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        Joao Saldanha. Player, then journalist, then manager at Botafogo and won Championship, quit and went back to journalism for the best part of a decade, then as I understand it was sufficiently critical of the national coach that they said 'go on then, you do better' at which point he led Brazil to qualification for the 1970 World Cup before being sacked for (a) being an awkward git who nobody liked, or (b) being a noted leftie who the right-wing junta running the country couldn't risk becoming a national hero if they won. I may have some of the finer details wrong.

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