Team follows Campbell’s lead – the rest is history

often than not, what you see is what you get.

Behind closed doors he has every player on the edge of his seat. He fires up when he needs to, as coaches understandably can. If he gets nervous, he doesn’t show it.

Heat striker Jamie Carroll says the secret is Campbell’s fulltime job as an educator, his coolness and calmness under pressure and of course a football knowledge that can all be judged on its results in 2016.

“At the end of the day he’s the brains behind everything. He asks us to do a job and we go out and perform,” he said.

“He’s magic. His messages are magic.

“He’s really good with de- livering messages to people, getting his point across to the players and every game pregame chat we’ve had this year, everyone zones in on every single word he’s saying.

“It’s all about your mindset. He gets everyone’s mindset right before a game and I suppose that reflects in the results.

“Put it this way, the players have a lot of respect for him.”

Veteran Crios O’Hare said the best thing was Campbell knew the players were good enough to execute the game plan of the master tactician.

“I think he trusts us as well as players in our ability as well, so that gives us a bit of confidence before games,” he said.

“He’s just a really typical English manager, pretty old school in the way he does things, the way he talks to players, the tactics he uses.

“He’s been around the game for years and years and he knows what he’s doing

“He’s been excellent, as can be judged on the result we’ve got and how close the team is. We’re as close as ever.”