His record at Scarborough gives me great hope:
"Slade's first permanent managerial post was at Nationwide Conference side Scarborough. When he arrived in November 2001 the club were adrift at the bottom of the Conference and looking doomed. His first match in charge resulted in a home win over...
Dean White, "It will be a makeshift line-up on Tuesday unless we get off our backsides and go and get some players. That is a fact."
.....possibly the thickest man in the world.