ON SUNDAY, the newly crowned League Cup winners Arsenal take on the only Premiership team remaining in the last eight of the FA Cup, a fact noteworthy in itself but given added significance by the man leading Charlton Athletic into the tie. 

“I swear, people, to this day, don’t know who I am. They still think I’m the club physio or a club doctor. I do joke about it. It takes people by surprise when I tell them I’m the head coach.”

A former Nottingham Forest academy player, Riteesh Mishra has worked his way through the lower leagues in Scotland and the University of Stirling to become the highest level Asian head coach in the country today.