Robbie Savage shines with big heart amid the barbs in Macclesfield dugout

Robbie Savage shines with big heart amid the barbs in Macclesfield dugout

Silkmen coach oversees debut success after an unusual route for a 49-year-old former footballer into the hot seat

Given the direction of managerial travel – experience is very much secondary to youth – a 49-year-old making his dugout debut is a tad unusual. But Robbie Savage has always been an outlier, a man who, to his credit, rarely shies from sticking his still-flowing locks above the pool.

Over nearly a decade and a half as co-host of Radio 5 Live’s 606 football phone-in, Savage has suggested scores, perhaps hundreds, of times that he would wear the term “gaffer” well. Easy to say, right?

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