[Albion] Gary Dicker Retires

[AZ Gull]

So Joey Barton, who bangs on about people not being properly qualified, only has an Irish FA coaching badge?

I have no idea if I have been wooshed, but the qualification is the UEFA PRO Licence - the highest coaching qualification in European football. It just happens to have been run, in this instance, through the Northern Irish FA.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I have no idea if I have been wooshed, but the qualification is the UEFA PRO Licence - the highest coaching qualification in European football. It just happens to have been run, in this instance, through the Northern Irish FA.

Which is where Bruno qualified.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Gary Dicker as Head Coach with Jake Forster-Caskey as his assistant in 2025/26.

You heard it here first.

. . . and last.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

. . . and last.

Have you found out where he is yet?

 

[amexer]

Badges are essential because cant manage without. However still think man management, belief, bravery and respect from players is in the end what makes a good manager not badges

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I'm amazed that no one has suggested that the Albion should bring him back to add to our coaching staff yet.

I mean good luck to him and all that, but just because he graced the club as a player, and a pretty average one at that, doesn't mean we need him back as a coach.

There is a reason no one has suggested we need him back at the club.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

I'm amazed that no one has suggested that the Albion should bring him back to add to our coaching staff yet.

I mean good luck to him and all that, but just because he graced the club as a player, and a pretty average one at that, doesn't mean we need him back as a coach.

You do know he is already back coaching the U21s right?

 

[Springal]

You can usually see him by the media entrance before / after games

 

[AZ Gull]

You do know he is already back coaching the U21s right?

To be fair, Dicker only rejoined the club on July 2 2021. Maybe the news hasn't reached Cowfold yet.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I have no idea if I have been wooshed, but the qualification is the UEFA PRO Licence - the highest coaching qualification in European football. It just happens to have been run, in this instance, through the Northern Irish FA.

I understand it's the highest level, but the Northen Irish FA Bit like saying you got a degree from Portsmouth poly.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I understand it's the highest level, but the Northen Irish FA Bit like saying you got a degree from Portsmouth poly.

It’s the same course no matter what FA you gain the qualification under. People tend to go to whichever FA is running a course at the time they want to study rather than wait for say the English FA to be running a course.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I understand it's the highest level, but the Northen Irish FA Bit like saying you got a degree from Portsmouth poly.

Listening to a few ex footballer podcasts the location to finish your badges was either Belfast or somewhere in the UK. From memory Belfast was popular as I believe it was more a condensed intensive course duration wise, so quicker