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Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

No, I did not offer to resign for a second.

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.

Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.