In my column last week, I wrote about several managers I have played under throughout my football career.

Because I have had so many clubs, it wasn't possible to mention them all by name.

In my experience, though, most managers say basically the same old things.

I am a manager myself now, and I feel like a parrot most weeks, yes I feel like a parrot most weeks!

The tried and tested cliches come out every week. For example - keep it tight at the back, win your tackles, keep your discipline, blah blah.

So I suppose it must be the way that some managers express themselves, that enables them to get better results. I can remember John Ellener and Pete Amos being in charge during my stint at Weston-super-Mare.

John was the manager and Pete his assistant, they also worked together as teachers at the same school. Whenever I performed poorly, John made me stand in the corner, and Pete gave me a hundred lines!

Seriously, I had a lot of respect for John, and he did a great job at the club, winning the Western League was probably his finest achievement there.

Pete was a great coach, and I know he went on to have more success when he joined the staff at Bristol City FC.

I never played under Nigel 'badger' Webb, but he was a top manager in local football, before walking away from the game.

He is a good friend of mine, and only recently I asked him if he missed being a football manager. He explained to me that although he missed the buzz in the changing room before a match, he also liked the fact that he could now indulge himself in other passions he enjoys, like eating and taking holidays.

He has only just returned from a Mediterranean cruise, and has another one booked for the winter.

I can see why he enjoys this mode of travel so much, especially when I read what was available during the days at sea. Badger's eyes must have just lit up when he read this - 7am breakfast, 10am tea and biscuits, 12pm brunch, 2pm lunch, 4pm cakes and scones, 6pm continuous buffet through the night. No wonder he has to wear those elastic high-waisted trousers these days!

Badger was the manager at Brislington where, for many years before him, Jamie Patch held the top job.

I played under Jamie for a few seasons during my first stint at the club. He won several cup competitions and led them when they won the Western League First Division title. Jamie was also one of the lads. He always went on the end of season tours, and any organised lads' nights out. Jamie liked his teams to enjoy themselves on and off the pitch. The one thing though that I'm sure he didn't like was the nickname the lads gave him. It was Rigsby after the seventies television character played by Leonard Rossiter in the show Rising Damp.