Home club Forest are now in the hands of Mark Warburton, a schoolmaster who worked at Latymer Upper School in London and continued to pursue his teaching career at St Clement Danes School, Chorleywood, when he worked at Watford. As a youth player at Leicester City he was under Frank McLintock but when Jock Wallace took over, Warburton lost his love of the game as the Scot treated the players like "marines". So Warburotn came out of the professional game and played at Enfield and Boreham Wood experiencing success with an FA Trophy win with Enfield and success in the Alliance Premier League between 1981-3. He also had a short spell in Charlotte, Chicago, USA.
He then decided to "travel Europe" watching others coach and from that learning experience he joined Brentford under Mark Benham, an owner interested in mathematical modelling. If you have ever seen "Moneyball" then we are talking about using facts and figures to judge players performances and that is exactly what was happening in North-west London. This did not run smoothly with Warburton who eventually got involved in a "Warburtongate!" when he fell out with Benham's policies, despite seeing unfashionable Brentford promoted to the Championship in 2014-15.
During his time there he hooked up with David Weir who continued to work with him when he was called to Glasgow Rangers in 2015 and is now at Forest. As a manager Warburton has overseen 160 games with a winning % of 58.75.
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At the Derby is Gary Rowett, a product of the Cambridge United Youth system and with most clubs he has had success. In 1991-2 the Us came 5th in Division 2, the best they have achieved, they reached the play-off semis and had their best ever League Cup run to the quarter-finals.
At Everton in March 1994 the club won the FA Cup but he did not take part in any cup games, but surely his presence was enough!
He spent time at Blackpool, Derby for three seasons, Birmingham City where they went to the play-offs, Leicester, Charlton and Burton where his playing career ended. He managed in 2012 taking the Brewers to 4th in Division 2 losing the play off semi and again to 6th place losing in the final. The club also had its best ever League Cup run in 2012-13. In 2014-15 he took Birmingham City from 21st to 10th in the league but was sacked when they were in 7th place in December 2016.
At Derby since Steve McLaren bit the dust he has not had a lot of time to establish his philosophy and with a 42.6% win percentage over 105 games, he is clearly not the favourite, statistically
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