It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
From Gary Neville
Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.
We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.
Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.
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