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

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player.

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.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

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