It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.
In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.
When people think Arsenal had a bad season and we've had a good one, yet they still finish above us, it hurts.
It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.
I remember once Manchester United were ahead of Manchester City by eight points and ended up losing it, so everything is possible in this life.
The Premier League is so difficult.
I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.
The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
I want to feel I can help the club to believe they are good, and I want to feel the fans knowing the team is good. Sometimes you don't believe that because in the past, you have not won as many titles like the other ones.
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