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11th Aug 2015

Pic: Look at how ridiculous every Premier League manager looked when they were a player

Arsene Wenger, ladies and gentlemen

Conor Heneghan

We’d love to say they haven’t changed a bit but…

They say that being a football manager can be a stressful job and you only have to look at how many of them either lose their hair or see it rapidly turn grey to see the effect that management can have.

Going grey or rapidly receding hairlines weren’t an issue for the vast majority of the current Premier League managers when they were in their playing days, as is illustrated in a quite hilarious image posted by the excellent Old School Panini account on Twitter a little earlier.

https://twitter.com/OldSchoolPanini/status/631063834661384192/photo/1

Norwich boss Alex Neil (currently the youngest boss in the Premier League) was the only one showing signs of ageing during his playing days and we don’t think we’ll ever get over that magnificent crop of curly hair that Arsene Wenger sported in his youth.

The less said about Ronald Koeman and his bowl haircut, meanwhile, the better.

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