Michael Flynn column

It came as a big shock to see the news flash up on TV that Lee Clark, one of my old bosses, had been sacked by Huddersfield.

They are still only a few points off second place even though they lost that big game at home to Sheffield United on Tuesday.

But I think Dean Hoyle, the chairman there, had set out automatic promotion as his goal and, with the money he has invested, was entitled to get that.

Clark had a good unbeaten run with them but they are still in League One and maybe the chairman felt they weren’t going to go up this season either if he didn’t make a change.

Hoyle runs that club and wouldn’t do anything he thought would be a backwards step for them. The amount he has bankrolled Huddersfield shows how committed he is.

He perhaps feels it’s right to bring in a new man and give him enough time to get them over the line.

It again shows how quickly football management can change. One minute you’re flavour of the month, the next you can be out of a job.

Despite that, I would love to be a coach and a manager one day. It doesn’t put me off.

I’m trying to do my UEFA B licence in the summer and I’m thinking ahead. I’d like to think I have the self-confidence and belief to bring the right formula to the job.

I’ve worked under a lot of managers and I’d try to take a little bit of the good and bad points from them.

There have been some big names – Paul Jewell, Stan Ternent, Simon Grayson, Lee Clark, Stuart McCall, Peter Jackson and Phil Parkinson – and they’ve all had their strengths in different ways.

Hopefully I can take something from each of them and then put my own mark on it. But you also need plenty of luck!

It’s something that I’m definitely interested in. I’ve had to hold back for now from putting in my CV at the Galpharm but when I’m 35 or 36, coaching and management is definitely the direction I want to go in.