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STERN JOHN

Anguilla have just moved below San Marino to sit bottom of the men’s FIFA rankings. How and why did you become their manager last autumn?

Dennis Lawrence was the manager of the Trinidad & Tobago team and I was his assistant, but there were problems and he got the sack. I saw Anguilla needed a head coach, I applied, and a few weeks later I had an interview. I knew Anguilla were bottom of FIFA’s rankings, and there’d be challenges, but I’ve always started out from the bottom in my career and I wanted to see if I could make a difference. There are a

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