We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.
Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.
As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.
We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.
These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.