Poyet, Leeds (player)

In a move that certainly did not smack of desperation, then Leeds manager Dennis Wise played his 40(ish) year old assistant manager in central midfield in a mid-season friendly game, reportedly to see if he would be good enough to cut it in the Championship.

To be fair to Wise, his alternatives included Ian Westlake and Kevin Nicholls...

Anyway, the result of this... experiment may have looked a little like this:

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I've done this kit a few times before, so it held no real difficulties.

A bit of research showed that he did wear his favoured number 8 shirt in the match. I chose to leave the name off, as it probably would have been for a friendly.

In case you're unfamiliar with the kit:

As far as I'm aware, there are no pictures of Poyet from this friendly game, so I've settled for one of Alan Thompson!