Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula.