Bad week to be a Ligue 1 boss – four coaches in five days as Football Manager enthusiast gets top job

Reims became the fourth Ligue 1 club since Sunday to drop their head coach when Oscar Garcia was ousted - to be replaced by former video gamer William Still.

Just one win in 10 games in the French top flight cost Garcia, with assistant Still to become caretaker boss.

This represents the remarkable final milestone in the career of Still, who turns 30 on Friday.

Till was obsessed with the Football Manager and Championship Manager series as a teenager, and said those games gave him the "impetus" to become a coach as a profession, without having played football full-time.< /p>

He told Sport Bible in May: “I wanted to be able to talk to the players. I wanted to have that relationship. what it was like to manage a team.

“I actually think people who play Football Manager understand the game a bit better. more and more complicated. »

Till graduated from Myerscough College in Preston, England, before working with the Preston Under-14 team before moving to Belgium, where his parents lived, and finding work in Sint- Truiden, Lierse and Beerschot.

Still is in a second stint with Reims, having briefly left to be assistant boss at Standard Liège. He spoke of managerial ambitions in the Premier League and the Champions League.