Nick Townsend talks to Olly Murphy, a young trainer making his mark

In early November, Olly Murphy posted on his Twitter feed: “Sport is brutal at times.” Had it not been followed by a lament for football manager Dean Smith, dismissed by Aston Villa, the club the young trainer follows fervently, the post could have been considered more than a little incongruous - considering his own fortunes in a month in which he boasted a winning strike rate of over 30 per cent.With 43 wins for the season and a sixth place in the trainers’ championship, at the time of writin...