Kevin Phillips had to wait until he was 48 to be offered his first job as a manager – which is madness.
How can a serial achiever with 282 goals in 660 senior games, eight England caps and winner of Europe's Golden Boot 22 years ago be left to wither on the vine while so many clubs chased 'fashionable' boutique appointments?
Phillips, previously on the tracksuit staff at Leicester, Derby and Stoke, knows the game at every level from Baldock Town, where he was scouted by the late Watford manager Glenn Roeder for £10,000 in 1994, upwards.
