The pressure of the Premier League is huge but so is moving your family across the world to a club where they had sacked the manager every year for the last five.
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I'd read a classics book on the bus when I was at York.
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My mum had always pressed on me to continue my education, and it was just the volatility of sport in terms of not being able to control the result.
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I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.
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I remember playing against the great Manchester United teams when I was a player.
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Ultimately, good players need to play and they don't always at a young age in England.
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I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.
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I want to take people out of their comfort zones and teach them to rely on their team-mates.
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The competition that is the Premier League is the biggest challenge in itself. It's my job to get the players to believe that they can go in to every match and win.