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🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'd like to talk about my street |
0:03.0 | I'd like to talk about your street with my hand round your side |
0:22.6 | I'd like to talk about your transition |
0:25.6 | from being a player to being a manager |
0:28.6 | into coaching |
0:30.6 | you captained all the clubs you played for |
0:32.6 | clearly a leader in that sense |
0:34.6 | was management the obvious step |
0:36.6 | what was your mindset like at the end of your career in that sense, was management the obvious step? What was your mindset like at the |
0:39.2 | end of your career in that last season, perhaps at Middlesbrough? Because of the type of player I was, |
0:44.6 | I think there would be an expectation that I probably would go into management. And if I'm absolutely honest, I think that weighed quite heavily so that was a pressure that |
0:58.9 | weighed quite heavily on me and I think if you ask a lot of players whether they're ready |
1:08.1 | to retire I mean physically I was because I'd had a number of, |
1:13.9 | I'd had an operation every year on my knee for about six or seven years. So I'd come to a point |
1:20.2 | where physically I think I was ready, not a thing I know I was ready to retire. Mentally, I hoped I was, but I wasn't. |
1:31.3 | Sheffield Wednesday, I was supposed to be joining Ron Atkinson to be his assistant, |
1:37.6 | and then Ron got sacked. |
1:40.4 | So I didn't go to Sheffield Wednesday in the end. |
1:45.0 | I was actually interviewed for the Sheffield United job didn't get that |
1:50.0 | Steve Bruce took that and yeah my first job became |
1:56.0 | I took around Christmas time |
2:01.6 | to go to Carlisle. |
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