Pascal Chimbonda has just begun his managerial career at a non-league team who had lost 15 of their first 16 league games and been handed the task of trying to save them from relegation.
But when he insists he cannot be stopped once he sets his mind on something he only has to look at his own career for proof.
‘In 1998 when France won that World Cup I was living in the Caribbean,’ began Guadeloupe-born Chimbonda, a member of the 2006 France squad that reached the final.
‘I was watching that with my family and I said to my mum Francina ‘you see we’re watching that game now, one day you will see me in that TV and you’ll be watching me as well.