BRIAN McDermott says he hasn’t given up on management – despite spending eight years out of the dugout. Since leaving a second spell in charge at Reading in 2016, McDermott has operated in a variety of backroom roles and most recently spent a year as director of football at Scottish side Hibernian. “It’s a funny sort of role,” he says of his time in Edinburgh, which came to an end in June following the dismissal of manager Nick Montgomery. “You do a lot of stuff at the academy, I did a lot of stuff with the women’s team, with the academy...