One thing that occurs to me, and hasn't got much of a mention yet in here, is being able to adapt successfully - both from game to game for different opponents, and perhaps even more crucially, changing something subtle during a game to impact the result. I don't just mean making subs etc
, I mean spotting something in the first 10 or 15 minutes, be it a weakness on our side that we need to resolve, or a weakness on their side that we need to exploit, and doing something about it. For me, that's one of the things that separates the really world class managers from the rest - being able to squeeze that extra little advantage from simply watching how the game starts and adjusting something to optimalise our chances. I will happily admit that I rarely spot anything of that nature myself, but when pundits explain such things after a game, and show examples of how a manager has slightly changed the shape or a specific player's position or approach or whatever, it really reminds me of how far ahead of everyone else the true tacticians are (including all being infinitely far ahead of all those on here who think they would and could be great managers
).
