It's not a coincidence. The team flows in a different way when he is playing."
In eight years we have never lived this kind of situation,
The fire is when you win a lot of games, which is better than when you are losing, but we accept this. We have to move forward and break it and try."
You don’t come to a place like this thinking that it’s going to be probably as convincing as it was for us in terms of the way we handled (things),
I said during the week I really think we’ve progressed as a team,
No, no, it just needed the contact, didn't it? I didn't want to try too much. I just needed to get a good contact."
I think I've actually made a few of them runs this season and got the ball and not scored. So it hasn't been spoken about,
He was outstanding. You have to be against City, and Madders was great,
On my birthday, Jamie? Really?"
The second one definitely wasn't, James, but that first one, there was definitely a little bit!"
It was a nightmare trying to concentrate with so much media attention and so many cameramen on top of me,
The season’s started and we are really looking forward to it. We see the things said in the media and every next person is tipping someone else to win the league and putting us in third or fourth place.”
I think it's going to be a real pivotal part of the season. If we're still 10th at Christmas obviously people won't be happy, but we might not be 10th,
I think I said I am steadfast and I am clear on some really strong principles that I just won't budge on. But that doesn't mean I don't feel at times I need to adapt in the way I deliver things,
I took over a club that finished eighth,
It’s a significant period and at the end of it we could be in a decent position for a strong second half of the year,
I think there’s enough there that shows we are progressing and developing into the team we want,
I couldn’t care less who it is against and, yes, the appeal is worth it,