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Aston Villa's head coach Dean Smith with players during a break in the match against West Ham United. Smith used the Covid-19 lockdown to motivate his players. — AP
He also believes that if you get the performance right, then the results will follow. Before the lockdown, Aston Villa allowed an average of more than five shots against them per game. After the restart, it was down to fewer than three. The irony is that if the Covid-19 pandemic hadn’t given Smith the opportunity to improve things, we might very easily have gone down. Instead, we managed to come out stronger at the end of all that.
He also had a very difficult decision to make of who to fire. So he gathered his core management team of half a dozen people around him and they held online Zoom meetings twice a day. What they were going to figure out was how to beat this Covid-19 slump. And finally, it was decided that nobody would be fired. The way he put it was like this: “Your job is to take care of people. Your job is to give people jobs. And so, if at a time like this, you just pull out, you’re basically not doing your job as a boss.”
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