How to parse this sentence?
"No doubt there will be a temptation for some to detect another sign here of a continuing personal unravelling, evidence of a dressing room already being lost before it has been found."
What does the ..evidence of a dressing room... act as in this sentence?

Question

How to parse this sentence?
"No doubt there will be a temptation for some to detect another sign here of a continuing personal unravelling, evidence of a dressing room already being lost before it has been found." 
What does the ..evidence of a dressing room... act as in this sentence?

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Hello David,

This is quite a difficult phrase to decipher but I think that it means when a football manager has a talk with his team, is he improving their motivation or is he damaging it. The context sounds like the manager has some issues of his own, which may mean that talking to his team is not motivational, as he doesn't clearly know what the problem is.

It could be said like this... evidence that he cannot improve the players' motivation before he's even found what the issues are.

Does that make sense in the context of the text?

Wade.

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