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I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.

Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.

I did not want to go anywhere where I would be interim.

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.