Welcome to the Foxpunter Manager Profiling podcast, hosted by sports writer and broadcaster Jack Critchley and Foxpunter's Mike Holden.

Every week we'll focus on a selection of football managers, their leadership styles, how they celebrate, commiserate and how they deal with difficult situations.

This week we focus on under-fire Cardiff boss Mick McCarthy. We ask whether his managerial style has become a little outdated and is better suited to avoiding the drop than chasing promotion. 

We also look at why Veljko Paunovic is the right man to help Reading battle their way to safety and overcome their pending points deduction. 

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