Jones namechecks John Syer and Chris Connolly - who both provided psychological support for Tottenham players in the early 1980s - as quasi-forerunners of Demichelis, but you have to look back to 1958 and Brazil's World Cup-winning psychologist Joao Carvalhaes to find a similarly decorated example of a laboratory dedicated to cognitive skills training.
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