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You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.

I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job.

Owners are made to be hated. We're the guys that trade away your favorite player.

We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

There's always two or three players I like, and why I like them, I can't tell you. There's just something about them I think would be great on a team.

I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days.