Ramble Meets... Alan Curbishley
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Alan Curbishley has managed over 700 games at Premier League and Championship level, making him still, after eight years out of the game, one of the top ten most experienced managers in top flight football.
Here in this exclusive and revealing interview with Football Ramble Daily, he talks us through his career from the highs of achieving promotion to the Premier League in dramatic fashion with Charlton Athletic to the lows of his contentious exit from West Ham while still at the peak of his powers, as well as how close he came to the England job in 2006, and why Thierry Henry still brings him out in a nervous sweat.
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| 0:00.0 | Alan Kirby's Lee, former professional player and professional manager. |
| 0:10.8 | Alan, I wonder when you're standing on the touch line managing a visiting team |
| 0:15.7 | at Old Trafford and there's 60,000 people there and you're in the heat at the battle. |
| 0:20.6 | What's going through your mind? |
| 0:22.6 | Well, I think like most clubs, you know, it's surviving. |
| 0:29.8 | You're going to Old Trafford. |
| 0:30.8 | I mean, that fear factor when Fergu was here was for everyone to see. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, no one really got anything at Old Trafford. |
| 0:37.1 | And when I played, no one ever got anything at Amfield, you know, |
| 0:40.4 | the Suness and Dalglish is at this world and much. |
| 0:43.4 | So, you know, when you go to these big clubs, obviously you've got to make |
| 0:49.1 | special arrangements, I would call it. |
| 0:50.7 | You know, you have to make special arrangements for when you played a top four or five clubs |
| 0:54.7 | in the Premier League, you have to, unless you're one of them. |
| 0:57.8 | You know, even they make special arrangements when they play in each other. |
| 1:01.0 | We've seen Chelsea and, you know, got Old Trafford without a centre-forward, haven't we? |
| 1:05.6 | You know, so, but as a newly promoted side with Charlton and when I first went into Westam, |
| 1:12.8 | struggling a little bit, you know, there was a fear factor there, |
| 1:17.0 | but you've got to try and overcome that because if the players, if the player sense that, |
| 1:21.0 | especially during the week, when you're building up to the game that perhaps it's all a little bit too negative, |
| 1:27.8 | it can never adverse effects. |
| 1:29.3 | And how present are you in that moment, means it, when you look back on it now, |
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