No coaching course could have prepared Peter Lovenkrands for it. In fact, on his SFA licence, David Moyes did a talk on potential problems you might face as a manager - where he used some worst case scenario examples. But none of them were as bad as this.
After all, where in the manual does it talk about a Russian billionaire’s son demanding you pick his chosen players? Was there a chapter on being given an Armenian assistant who was actually suspected of feeding stuff back to the owner? When was the Zoom call about dealing with an American takeover - only to realise the cash was from HASH farms so couldn’t be used?
And where was the lecture on finding out the day before a game your club had hours to live - but it was saved with just 30 minutes to spare? The truth is, nothing could have readied Lovenkrands for his first ever job at Danish side Fremad Amager. And incredibly, all of this happened during his first year in the dug-out.
