{"id":1280590,"date":"2022-09-30T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1280590"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:12:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T16:12:13","slug":"neil-warnock-tactical-decision-wife-dream","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/neil-warnock-tactical-decision-wife-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Warnock &#8220;made tactical decisions based on his wife&#8217;s dreams&#8221; (and they often worked)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two of Neil Warnock&#8217;s former players have revealed the bizarre tactical decisions the Yorkshire coach made based on dreams his wife had.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old is one of the most recognisable faces in the English game having enjoyed a succesful career in the dugout that spanned four decades.<\/p>\n<p>A serial promotion-achiever, Warnock memorably had stints at Crystal Palace, Sheffield United, Cardiff City, QPR and Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent spell came at Middlesbrough between 2020 and 2021, and in April this year he announced his retirement from the sport, ending 42 drama-fuelled and succesful years on the touchline.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Neil Warnock&#8217;s &#8220;insane&#8221; tactical blueprint<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Two of Neil Warnock&#8217;s former players have revealed the coach made tactical decisions based on dreams his wife had.<\/li>\n<li>Darren Ambrose and Paul Ifill have explained how those decisions benefitted the team (<a href=\"#darren-ambrose-quotes\">click here for full quotes<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Warnock once played right-back Danny Butterfield up front, and the defender scored the fastest hat-trick in Palace history.<\/li>\n<li>Palace take on Chelsea this weekend, and <a href=\"\/en\/go\/sky-bet?q=gb-all-con-wof-s-spo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener sponsored\">Sky Bet are offering enhanced odds of 3\/1 on Wilfried Zaha registering 2+ shots on target<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Some of his most famous achievements include guiding Sheff Utd, QPR and Cardiff to the Premier League, as well as helping prevent Crystal Palace tumbling down to League One despite being hamstrung in the market by serious financial difficulties, which culminated in the club entering administration in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Despite keeping Palace afloat in a precarious period for the club, many fans remember him, not just for those Championship-retaining heroics, but also for turning a &#8220;fringe&#8221; right-back into peak Alan Shearer during a freak six-minute spell in a random FA Cup fourth-round replay.<\/p>\n<p>Darren Ambrose, who scored 20 goals for Palace during that 2009\/10 season, has now spoken about the bizarre series of events. Having drawn 2-2 with Wolves in the fourth round of the FA Cup at Molineux, the game went to a replay at Selhurst Park &#8212; and it&#8217;s one that has since gone down in Palace folklore.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: <a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/football-live-streaming\/crystal-palace-chelsea-live-stream-watch-online-premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/football-live-streaming\/crystal-palace-chelsea-live-stream-watch-online-premier-league\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Crystal Palace v Chelsea live stream: How to watch Premier League online<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Warnock decided to move then right-back Danny Butterfield up front&#8230; and in just six minutes he netted a &#8216;perfect&#8217; hat-trick. The unglamorous defender netted only 14 times in 569 games during his career, but against Wolves he went full Shearer &#8212; and Ambrose has now spoken about the strange way the whole spectacle <a id=\"darren-ambrose-quotes\"><\/a>unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>He told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/talkSPORT\/status\/1575412906191118337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1575412906191118337%7Ctwgr%5E9673e8a9e2bc87d682237863d26b6fe22cc18a81%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportbible.com%2Ffootball%2Fneil-warnock-premier-league-funny-20220930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talkSPORT<\/a><\/em>: &#8220;Apart from Sir Bobby, he was my favourite manager, honestly, such a great guy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was known as the son of [Warnock] I\u2019ve got many stories. Him cutting my toenails\u2026 he was a qualified chiropodist!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also got a draw away at Wolves and he came in and said, \u2018My wife Sharon, she had a dream last night,\u2019 no one really laughed because that was what he was like.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018She dreamt that my right-back scores the winning goal today\u2019, So he said, \u2018Danny Butterfield, you\u2019re playing up front\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t even the right-back at the time, he was a fringe player because Nathaniel Clyne was playing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Crystal Palace v Chelsea betting tips from<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/bet\/chelsea-vs-crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka Bet<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/go\/bet-uk?q=uk-all-con-mab-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-1327905_238=\"7981\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-1327905_238=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-1327905_238=\"1\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-1327905_412=\"7994\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-1327905_412=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-1327905_412=\"1\">Draw @ 27\/10 with BetUK<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/go\/hollywoodbet?q=uk-all-con-bag-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-1327905_238=\"7999\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-1327905_238=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-1327905_238=\"1\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-1327905_412=\"8009\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-1327905_412=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-1327905_412=\"1\">Christian Pulisic to score anytime @ 29\/10 with Hollywoodbets<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>18+ only. 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He replaced me with Alan Quinn who scored the only goal! Madness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ifill added: &#8220;I was fuming and was gonna go in on the Monday to have a moan up but his missus had nailed it! 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