I always remember Sir Alex saying, I think, maybe towards the end when I was there, that being around young people kept him young.

Yes.

Is there an element of that with yourself?

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

They do give you some energy.

Yeah.

You know, I think just being in the job energizes you.

There's no doubt I felt energized these last two months or so, more so than perhaps I was when my life was more mundane in terms

of going down the gym, going for walks, finding a nice restaurant for lunch or dinner. And that

was good too. I don't know what to complain about that. Just in case she was watching this,

I'll make that clear. I was happy with that. He's really sorry that you did enjoy that time as well.

Having sympathy and empathy with your players is vitally important.

Once you start getting angry with them or disliking them, that's when your chance of really coaching them starts to diminish.

It's like a runaway train.

You can see it going wrong and you can't really help.

Was there any point that you thought, what am I doing? Could I put more pressure on, maybe? But I don't know that that makes any difference. How are you in that moment where you're feeling like you might need to make a change? What was that first message that you gave the players on that first day in training? That was good question. When they first came to the Premier League, they probably didn't realize the jeopardy involved.

I didn't know what I was doing.

It was rock bottom, really, so the only way it was up.

Do you buy into the theory that you've got to be a little bit mad to be a manager?

Well, an exciting addition of the overlap today where we're at Crystal Palace's training

ground and academy to sit down with Steve Parrish and my old boss, Roy Hodgson, who obviously

I worked with for four years with England, done a brilliant job in this last seven weeks,

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