Mark Oram

"When I arrived, they told me we would play Stoke City. I knew of their reputation, of their style. I went to the library. I found the videos. Not of the current team, no. The foundation. The source. I watched, for two weeks, only the throws of Rory Delap. Every throw. The position of the hips, the rotation of the torso, the release of the ball. The trajectory. I watched the movement of the players, not the ones who received the ball, but the ones who moved away, the ones who created the space. I had to understand the philosophy. The soul of the team. Even if the player is no longer there, the ideas remain. The DNA is a ghost that haunts the club."