Witch-Hunt? Top Bosses Know That Criticism Is Part of Job; Expert Analysis from a Legend of the Game

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Byline: Bernard Flynn

READING Jim McGuinness' comments from the Allianz Football League launch on Monday, I was certainly taken aback.

Managers are certainly under pressure these days and, given the way structures are now, the League is big business and runs right up into the Championship. It simply has to be taken seriously and the day of turning it on when you feel like it is gone.

McGuinness certainly has a point in his criticism of the power wielded by college sides nowadays.

Several managers are under pressure and some might even be turfed out before the end of the League, yet many of them have very limited access to their players ahead of …