AFTER Donna Powell opened the way for woman managers by taking over for one game at Fisher Athletic this week, I reckon they may well do a better job than some of the chaps are doing.

Powell was unable to stop Fisher losing their 11th game in a row but showed enough tactical acumen in the second half that looking after a bunch of fully grown men who chase a ball was not beyond her.

The one thing a manager needs is a tough mentality and I reckon most women could give us chaps a run for our money in that department.

Take my wife, who has been relatively unfazed about the up coming birth of our child. If she can survive childbirth then squaring up to Sir Alex Ferguson is going to be a walk in the park.

For all men's machismo it's almost always the women who really rule the roost, they're just far more cunning at it than the men.

Seriously, there's no reason why women couldn't do the business from the technical area, all it takes is sound tactical knowledge, common sense and of course a will of steel. There are plenty of men managing teams who don't have any of those qualities and still get away with being employed.

At the minute women seem a million miles away from taking over a team on a permanent basis but every applicant should be judged on their qualities and not on their sex.

Karen Brady and Delia Smith have already shown they are forces to be reckoned with in the boardroom, now it's time for women to put on the fitted tracksuit, pick up their whiteboard and start saying things like 'It's a funny old game.'

Let's face it, many Premier League players act like naughty school boys when they go out and 'relax'. Any thoughts about 'getting to know' young women in toilets and recording on their phones would quickly evaporate with a matronly manageress wielding her authority.