Have been lucky enough to listen to Nigel do a short talk about his career before and one of his anecdotes was from 2006, when he was Scunthorpe physio (and part time fitness coach). Sheffield Wednesday had made an approach for the manager Brian Laws and he was about to move, taking the assistant (Russ Wilcox) and Nigel with him. Nige was all ready to move when the Scunny chairman Steve Wharton told him "you're staying here". He'd been the manager of Bangor but that was ten years previous and he'd done a physiotherapy degree since then, that was a pretty secure job and he had a wife and kids to worry about, he'd did well at Bangor but mid-90's League of Wales was exactly the top end of League 1 standard. So he had to sit down with his family and talk it through, he was inexperienced and it looked like the cheap option, and if it all went wrong then it would be his name on the back pages and on the internet and he'd be out. The logical decision would have been to go to Sheffield but he stayed on a one year contract, centre back Andy Crosby became the temporary assistant, and a pretty amazing managerial team was born.
No, I am just offering an opinion of Nige's persona. We are all people at the end of the day. I think some of your previous managers and people associated with Southampton were absolute rotters, which goes for a lot of Pompey's previous (and present) too.
