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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Suzanne Wrack

Jack Wilshere: ‘Arteta was the one. I’d never seen someone coach that way’

Jack Wilshere on duty with Norwich before their Championship match at Sheffield Wednesday earlier this season
Jack Wilshere on duty with Norwich before their Championship match at Sheffield Wednesday earlier this season. Photograph: PA Images/Alamy

If there are nerves when Jack Wilshere walks into the room and sits behind the table emblazoned with the England logo, they are not evident.

The 33-year-old has been in press conference rooms many times as a player, but as a head coach it is an alien proposition. He is at St George’s Park and is part of a cohort of 25 on the Uefa Pro Licence course who are briefed on a fictional scenario they might face as a head coach before they take a seat in front of a small group of journalists to be brutally grilled on it. The process is a little extreme and not entirely true to life, but it is designed to put them under pressure and test the media skills they have learned that day.

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