Waiting For The Phone To Ring

‘Granddad Veno’ on Those In-Between Months

What do football managers and coaches do in between jobs? Some DIY, perhaps. Attend to family matters that might sometimes be pushed on to the back burner? Maybe, like Graham Potter, they take a holiday in the Falklands. Mark Venus’s time since he and Tony Mowbray left Albion for the second time has been channelled in largely predictable ways – but he did surprise us with one revelation, of which more will be written shortly.