Ali sat down with Darrell Clarke to get to know him, to discuss his playing and management career, especially his time at Bristol Rovers.

Find below a list of topics and timecodes:

01:00 - What Darrell has been up to since leaving Bristol Rovers.

04:45 - Any conversations been about vacancies?

06:00 - Is he hoping to get back in before the end of the 2018/19 season?

07:15 - Frustrations at difficulties for young, British Managers with many foreign managers being preferred.

10:15 - Darrell’s playing career - starting at home-town team Mansfield.

13:50 - Time at Salisbury as player and then player-manager after being demoted two divisions, winning promotion in his first and third seasons.

20:00 - Move to Bristol Rovers as Assistant Manager to John Ward.

22:45 - Becoming Manager with 8 games to go in 2013/14 season and suffering relegation.

24:30 - Being backed by the board after relegation and how he sold himself to the board as the man to take them back up.

27:40 - The difficulties of the National League

28:30 - How important was it to win that play-off final against Grimsby?

30:30 - Play-Off Final vs Grimsby memories

34:15 - League Two Promotion season - what was the strategy? Two stories about motivating the players!

40:00 - What were the main characteristics of that double promotion team - what made them so successful (tactics, style, mentality, etc)?

44:00 - Poor form this season despite

47:00 - How did he deal with the poor run of form? How did it affect him?

49:00 - Issues with infrastructure and facilities

51:00 - Insight of Graham Coughlan and the type of manager he will be

53:30 - Difficulty recruiting goalscorers - Jayden Stockley, Christian Doidge

55:00 - Tom Nichols

56:00 - Turning down Leeds United in 2016 - any regrets?

58:30 - His feelings leaving Bristol Rovers.

59:30 - League One analysis - automatic promotion battle

1:02:30 - tactics chat - how to set up against Luton 4-diamond-2

1:06:00 - League One analysis - relegation battle

1:08:00 - What’s the dream next opportunity?

1:09:30 - What sort of structure would he like to work in?

1:12:30 - Bristol Rovers fans ‘limbs’!

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