Former Leeds United manager Dave Hockaday has opened up on his time at the club, claiming he was 'thrown to the dogs' by the then owner Massimo Cellino, report the Guardian.
Hockaday was in charge at the club for just 70 days and has become somewhat of an Elland Road icon in that time but for all the wrong reasons, although he claims he was not given the right backing from the start.
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“I’ve seen [Marcelo] Bielsa going on about all this data, but we had nothing," Hockaday said.
"We had just one match analyst, one strength and conditioning coach and it just felt unprofessional.
"I was thrown to the dogs, just scrambling to get information on the opposition by phoning up other managers who had played the teams.”
Hockaday took over from Brian McDermott at the club and was the first appointment of the Cellino era but failed to deliver, winning just two of his six games in charge before being sacked.
He went on to coach at Coventry City, where he became caretaker manager for a short period, before moving on to Kidderminster Harriers.
He can now be found as the head of male football at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, just outside of Bristol.
The verdict
It is great to finally hear more of Hockaday's side of things at Leeds to be honest.
For so long he has been roundly ridiculed but he was hardly going to turn the job down was he? Cellino is the one who should continue to get hammered, not him.
But it is good to see that he is happy in his new surroundings, too.