There are training montages, a dastardly rival, physically painful triumphs and a hard-driving but fair coach.
I'd like to say that it was like the movies – that with Eye of the Tiger playing as a musical backdrop, crack-of-dawn workouts under a tough but fair coach and hard work and dedication I gradually became brilliant.
For all of Smith's tough-but-fair coaching, Woodson never quit, never refused to finish a task.
"Buddy was one of the toughest, but fairest, coaches I ever had," Philbin said.
A former Sunderland midfielder who has won plaudits as a firm but fair development coach, Ball possesses every coaching qualification going, knows the club inside out and, at 49, feels he is the perfect age.
"I think it was probably fair," Miami Coach Al Golden said.
And then, to be fair, defensive coaches had to be able to call in the defense to somebody on his side (usually a linebacker).
This is to be called the Strachan Thesis and, to be fair, the coach will have a pretty free diary for the task of completing it.
These lads, vomiting Monster into a Tesco carrier bag, they're just fair-weather coach travellers, unfamiliar with the flushing mechanism of the chemical loo.
I coach hard but I coach fair.
