I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country.

Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait.

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.