Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

I've always been one to arrive early for work; preparation is a big part of how I work, and I like to be in my office going through plans for the upcoming training sessions or meetings I have.

I'm blessed to be supported by some brilliant staff, who are all experts in their field and dedicated to what they do.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

If one day I go to a game and I don't feel I can win, maybe I don't go.

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence, he’ll try and get his way through it some way, but the young player will fight for you.

I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.