Football manager Phil Brown on the hardest job in the world

So you think taking over a struggling Championship football team, taking it into the Premiership and manoeuvring it to just three points shy of Manchester United in the first four months of the season is a hard task?

Well, according to Hull City FC manager Phil Brown, who has done just that in his two years in the job, it's nothing compared to running a restaurant.

Brown, picured here discussing Sam Allardyce's waistline, ran Brown's Brasserie while he was a lower league defender and recently talked to The Times newspaper of his experiences:

"I was maître d', front of house. That's tough, I tell you, it's one of the hardest jobs in the world. The experience of dining: for somebody to come in and be managed, treated the right way, have the right service, the right food, finishing as well as greeting - making sure they come back - that's one of the hardest things you could do. I found it a good job. One of the most thankless tasks I've ever done, but very rewarding and pleasing when you get somebody coming back to dine at your place."