Managers may have to relinquish power in the future as football evolves, the Football Association’s former director of communications Adrian Bevington feels.
While European clubs have long embraced a sporting director role to help support bosses, their English counterparts have traditionally shied away from this – but Bevington believes now is the time to embrace change.
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