Robbie Savage shines with big heart amid the barbs in Macclesfield dugout

08/10/2024 02:05 PM

Silkmen coach oversees debut success after an unusual route for a 49-year-old former footballer into the hot seat

Given the direction of managerial travel – experience is very much secondary to youth – a 49-year-old making his dugout debut is a tad unusual. But Robbie Savage has always been an outlier, a man who, to his credit, rarely shies from sticking his still-flowing locks above the pool.

Over nearly a decade and a half as co-host of Radio 5 Live's 606 football phone-in, Savage has suggested scores, perhaps hundreds, of times that he would wear the term "gaffer" well. Easy to say, right?