The job of the manager at a football club is without doubt the most crucial position to be filled. The late and great Brian Clough was of the opinion that the appointment of a manger was so important that, should the board then relieve him of his duties, they should also step down from their position. Certainly the role of the manager has changed since Clough was in his pomp, as he stated himself,Once youre a manager, everything lands on your doorstep. If a fan trips up on his way into the ground, if a player gets barracked from the terraces, if a seat doesnt work properly, if a season ticket holder cant find a programme seller, if the postman brings a sackful of letters saying the teams no bloody good it will all end up in the managers office. You can stake your life on it.Duties Clough used to perform such as watering the pitch, painting the stands or driving the team bus are now delegated to others and even transfers and contract Milwaukee Brewers Jersey negotiations are often now dealt with directors of football or the various other titles they may hold. But it is through the manager that the team ethos and tactics are developed and coaching is becoming more and more important with the elevation of coaches such as Brendan Rodgers and Steve Paul Molitor Jersey Clarke into management positions would testify.A cursory glance at available managers who are members of the League Managers A sociation reveals that there are currently 87 football managers out of work (I take this as out of work in terms of being a football manager as there are plenty of names who are involved in the media and other jobs within the industry) which I would take as a conservative estimate. Managers come and go from football clubs on a somewhat alarming basis now, the most comprehensive report I have read on this comes from Dr Bridgwater who examined trends in football management between 1992/93-2005. Acro s the 4 leagues, the report found that 536 managers had been dismi sed during this period an average of around 30 per season, whilst a much smaller figure of 48 resigned. So what makes a manager right for a club? My team, Nottingham Forest have recently appointed Sean O Driscoll as manager, and it has been frequently written and stated by my fellow Forest fans that he seems to be the right man for the Robin Yount Jersey job. Based on what I have heard him say and do over his just over initial month in charge I am inclined to agree. Yet ODriscoll arrived with very little fanfare from the national pre s and with a win percentage of around 30% from his previous two clubs of Bournemouth and Doncaster Rovers, a figure which is actually lower than the Average Win percentage of the 536 dismi sed managers mentioned previously. We have had 18 managers since Brian Clough resigned in 1992/93 but none of them have felt as right as ODriscoll despite some of them having arguably better records than him. Billy Davies, Gary Megson, Steve McClaren and even Steve Cotterill all arrived with bigger reputations and better statistics yet none of these appointments felt as positive as the one of Sean ODriscoll. Sean brings with him a footballing ethos, his teams are known for playing an attractive brand of football which Forest became famous for under Brian Clough but historically have always had being very much a gentlemans club in the post war years prior to Cloughs arrival. He seems to be well respected by his former players and fans of both Doncaster and Bournemouth and does not seem to feel the need to big himself up to the media preferring a more quiet, considered approach earning himself the ironic nickname of Noisy.Had Forest gone for one of the iconic names supposedly being discu sed, McCarthy, Hoddle, Strachan, Erikson etc., I do not think the fit would have been right. O Driscoll is someone Forest have been linked to several times in the past and I think the fact his appointment has been met with near universal approval from the fans, has certainly made his job in the first few games easier. Equally Forest fans never really took to the likes of Gary Megson and Steve Cotterill, whose tactics were the polar opposite of what many Forest fans have been brought up to believe is the way Milwaukee Brewers Custom Jersey to play football. We also struggled with the blandne s of Calderwood and aloofne s of McClaren. Billy Davies was very good at creating a them and us mentality but reliance on this only lasts so long and holes and flaws quickly became apparent in his arguments and conduct towards the board and our late owner Nigel Doughty. O Driscoll is a sensible appointment and a safe pair of hands just like Pearson will prove to be at Leicester and Martin Jol is proving to be at Fulham. The spikine s which increased between Forest and Derby during the Davies era will hopefully mellow under ODriscoll who, I would imagine, has a lot more in common with Nigel Clough. I cannot see Clough kneeing Sean in the back and him subsequently talking about in the media which has caused a lot of antipathy towards one of our greatest players, something I would like to see reversed over the course of the season.Sometimes the manager of a club just feels wrong. In recent history Newcastle, a club I have admired since the swashbuckling days of Keegan and the dignity and achievement of the Robson years, have appointed their share of managers which just do not fit their club. I see Newcastle as an attacking, entertaining team, no doubt based on my early years watching football and that impre sive Keegan team which had considerable flair with the likes of Ginola, Asprilla alongside the graft and nous of players like Beardsley, Rob Lee and Ferdinand, it was a team I recall Milwaukee Brewers Hats thoroughly enjoying to watch, likewise in the Robson era. Compare that to the appointments of the likes of Allardyce, Soune s, Roeder and, I still cant believe it, Joe Kinnear. None of those felt like they should be managers of Newcastle United. Allardyce in particular is probably the antithesis of all I believe Stephen Vogt Jersey that Newcastle United stand for. His short lived reign and fan protests probably prove that he was just the wrong man for Newcastle and we see a similar scenario developing at West Ham United. The Hammers have a reputation for being a pa sing footballing side and the fans there seem to have struggled to adapt to the percentage football that Allardyce like his teams to employ. Soune s just did not seem to have the personality to create any sense of warmth between himself and the Newcastle fans and, like Allardyce he was sacked as fans began to turn on him.The cases of managers just not being right for football clubs is something we see very frequently. This is not because they are bad managers. Roy Hodgson is undoubtedly a decent manager who has had a steady managerial career albeit with middling clubs yet he floundered terribly at Liverpool. As a historically left wing, working cla s city, was Hodgson whose interests in fine wine, literature and the theatre a