How Nathan Jones Turned Southampton’s Collapse into Charlton’s Championship Surge—The Untold Story
The tactics change but the intensity remains, and it’s visible in his Charlton side. Perhaps that’s why he called the promotion his career highlight. “This is categorically the biggest thing,” he said. “Regardless of going to the Premier League, being promoted five times as a player, play-off campaigns as a manager, as an assistant and everything, this is the biggest. I was a lot more reserved than I thought I’d be, because I just wanted to take everything in.”
‘Reserved’ isn’t a word he’ll often have associated with him, but Jones has seemingly come to realise that if he doesn’t tell people who and what he is, they’ll do it for him in a way he might not appreciate. His opposite number at Wembley, Orient’s Richie Wellens, is also used to talking up his own impressive achievements, because clubs higher up the food chain don’t seem to have noticed them. You don’t get anything for free in football.
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