Ashley Cole worked under the likes of Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti during a hugely successful playing career - but he didn't appear to be obvious manager material himself.
As a young player, the left-back was too brash for many people's tastes, as likely to be found on the front pages as the back. And the least said about that air rifle the better, or being left 'trembling with anger' at Arsenal's wage offer.
It gave the enduring impression a character like Cole would be more at home in the television studio than the dug-out once he called time on his playing career.