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| | The Observer | Sport | The managerial career of Guy Roux |
 | | Roux, born in Alsace but brought up six miles from Auxerre, where he played (not particularly impressively, by all accounts) as a teenager, was the youngest candidate, fresh back from learning the ropes as an observer for a month at Crystal Palace. |
 | | Roux persuaded local farmers to donate their goats' dung for Auxerre's playing fields, had players' wives make bibs for training and in the evenings would run the club's switchboard himself, as he was the only one still around. |
 | | Roux's puppet, resembling a country bumpkin, is a regular on the satirical television show Les Guignols, (France's Spitting Image) and he's been happy to cultivate the image of the paysan who's smarter than he lets on. |
| observer.guardian.co.uk /sport/story/0,6903,1504897,00.html (1764 words) |
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