The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United.

We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad.