Distractions Fail to Move Mowbray From Aims Travails at Home and at Work All Part of the Challenge of Top-Flight M

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VERGING on the obsessively compulsive, Tony Mowbray leans forward to tidy the deluge of player DVDs supplied by agents which are scattered across the coffee table. He carefully aligns the remote controls for a television which has long since been silenced and stilled so the football news running along the bottom of the screen can't subconsciously distract a guy who could aptly be described as a football addict. Even the tape recorder is tweaked so that it sits just so.

This is a guy who likes order, who knows what and where he wants things and he desires them now. Sitting at the West Bromwich Albion training ground, he has lasted almost an hour into the chat before he finally succumbs to his desire to organise the objects. Not bad for a man for whom waiting is not a pastime, it is torture. Which means that life at the moment is excruciating. The messy table is a drop in the ocean compared to the chaos and uncertainty at home and at work.

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Distractions Fail to Move Mowbray From Aims Travails at Home and at Work All Part of the Challenge of Top-Flight M

Domestically, he is contending with the arrival of his second son, Max, born last week and forcing a practical and psychological shift in the family dynamics. Two-year-old Lucas is still warming to the newcomer and is clingy and, in an endeavour to prevent the usual nocturnal incursions into his parents' bed and the risk of waking the baby, watchguard Mowbray is temporarily sharing the toddlers' room.

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