Let's remember his age and what is expected of him. |
Maybe it's new to us and we need to understand more. I was told referees would be the same in Europe as they were in England. |
Maybe stepping up to that level will help him as well. |
Nuno has a thigh strain which looks like keeping him out for another four weeks, maybe even more. |
Nuno is doing some running now. We will have to see how everybody goes this weekend and then see what happens in the last few games. |
Of course I mentioned it to the players. That day at Villa Park marked a period when we really down but we're now scoring goals and playing well and we just needed to continue to do that. |
Over here, in this country, we shake hands at the end of the game and you always invite the managers to come in. We're all passionate and we all want to win and we all have to protect our own teams, but I think at the end there's also a wee bit of dignity needed. |
Phil is a quality footballer who will, I feel certain, improve and enhance the squad we are putting together here. He's very much a professional's professional. |
Phil is a quality footballer who will, I feel certain, improve and enhance the squad we are putting together here. We have staved off a great deal of competition to get him. |
Richard's been very unlucky. This was maybe Richard's chance to re-establish himself and he'll be disappointed. But that's the way football goes. |
The performance was great. The players were down after the 5-1 defeat but they came out tonight and they gave it a real go, |
The players are coming into the sort of form we believed they had. |
The players are coming into the sort of form we believed they had. And confidence is a big thing. We are on a run now, and it's much easier to be a manager when you are winning than when you are losing. |
The players worked hard and we should have had a goal. It certainly wasn't for the want of trying. |
The players' reactions after the game and on the journey home showed they cared. |