On Monday morning, Matt Bloomfield was in his office unpicking Colchester United’s weekend defeat to Carlisle when his phone buzzed. It was Rob Couhig, the American owner of Wycombe Wanderers, calling to ask Mr Wycombe himself if he was ready to come home.
Bloomfield was only five months into his first managerial job at Colchester, whom he’d steered out of the League Two relegation zone, but the lure of a club he had represented for his entire 19-year playing career was strong. The next morning he drove to meet Couhig at a hotel in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where Wycombe’s owner stays when he’s in town. The car is Bloomfield’s peaceful place where he likes to think, and he spent the two-hour journey round the M25 mulling his decision before their meeting.
