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David Moyes

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“And I couldn't tell him, and it felt really bad that I couldn't tell him because I was so close to Bill, but I couldn't break my word what Alex Sir Alex said he didn't want me to tell it, so I couldn't tell MD about my wife. So jumped back in the car, drove back to the shopping mall, shopping centre. Got the wife, put her in the car, and I says, I'm the new manager of Man United, and she was like, where you go, piss off your talking rubbish, you know. So that was it and that was how it went.”
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“Says nobody knows no problem. He says, Tell your wife, but nobody. So I couldn't tell my kids. I couldn't tell my dad. I couldn't tell my dad that I was going to get the job or was getting the job. So that for me was how it happened. And when I look back now, To get that offer from probably, arguably The greatest manager maybe there ever was a great compliment. Maybe if I'd really looked into more detail, in more depth. I was desperate to be successful as a manager, and I had 11 years at Everton where we said we wouldn't say we'd hit the glass ceiling, but we would find it really difficult to break into the top four, the competition and the money that was required. But my biggest regret was I was so close to Bill Kenwright, the owner at Everton.”
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“On the Sunday, I think I met Sir Alex in the midweek on the Wednesday someday, and on the Sunday, and I knew that if we had got a draw with Liverpool, we would probably finish above them in the league. And it was at Anfield, and we did, we get a draw, and we did finish above them. So it didn't have any effect on what I was doing at Ever. But the big thing was to say, and then the next day said, I want you to come back to my house tomorrow. Edward was going to come and see you. He's going to be the new chief executive who he says David Gill's leaving as well. That was it, and I met Edward one the next day, and then the next day back to his house again, and we met the glazers. And so it was three days. Three days where I dropped back to his house, the biggest problem I had was he said, And you can't tell MD about me retiring.”
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“I'm retiring in a nearly slipped down. It was slipped down because obviously that was nobody knew that Sir Alex was retiring. Nobody knew. No, nobody even suggested or thought about it. Nearly slipped down my head and say that, and then he says, And you're the next manager of Manchester United. I just sort of went, yeah, no kid, I wasn't going to turn around. I didn't think I would ever say no. I don't even know I was in a position to say no. And that was as simple as that. We got underway. He said, and there was only maybe, and to be fair, there was only four weeks to go to the end of the season, maybe five weeks to go to the end of the season. I was coming out of contract to Everton and I was really wanting to be respectful to them. And actually, my next game was against Liverpool.”
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“Sister Waf, I can't do it. I'm in my jeans. I couldn't go to Sir Alex for a pair of jeans on. There's no way. So I'm saying, oh, what am I going to do? Do I go down to Martin Spencer's and buy a pair of trousers before I go to Sir Alex? You know, so she's saying, Ah, come here, you go, just go and get on me and do it. So anyway, dropped my wife off at the shopping centre, and I drove out to Sir Alexi's house. And I went in. And he says, and Very nice house, and he's got a lovely sort of room sports room up the stairs, and he says, What a cup of tea. He says, I took up a cup of tea. And he said. Retir You're the next manager of Manchester United. No interview No telling me, not saying, would you like to be?”
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“Yeah. And actually, I'll tell you the story, Steve, is. It wasn't long after I turned 50, and my wife had bought me a watch, and actually we had gone through to Manchester too. The jaws, I needed to get a link taken out, and it was actually in altering them by all places I was in Alteringham. And the phone rang and it was Sir Alex. And I saw. It's Alex on the phone. And I thought, oh, he's going to want one of my players or he's going to want me to take one of his players. He's coming on to say something. And he said, Where I see I'm in Manchester. He says, right, come out to the house when you're ready, will you? Said, and that's a poor Sir Alex accent, probably, so”
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“It's probably not now. It's not now because I actually think. Staying in the job wouldn't be a bit longevity is a really important thing in any work if you can stay in it and you can show that you've done a good enough job. You know, I've had fortunate enough with a few manager of the year awards over the years, last few years. I've been nominated for it. But I've said many times I'd swap it for one of Josie Marino's Limon Medals if I got the chance, you know, or one of his trophies all day long. That's still got to be what I'm driving to do now. I'm not gone forever because I'm getting older and I don't want to be as old as Cyrilix or Roy Hodgson when they finish those sort of people. But I've still got the energy, I've still got the drive. I feel as if I've got a good team”
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“Think we've been successful. I think West Ham have been successful in the last two years. And what you know, really the ones who are the great winners and the serial winners are the ones who, once they get a bit of success, all they want is more of it. I'd love to be sitting here and bringing my trophies in here in front of you and putting them up and saying here, look at these trophies, I've not got that. What have I got? I've got periods of success and my teams have done well. We've got to Europe, you know, got to a cup final here and there. We've got to semifinals. So not everybody in the industry can have success. Not everybody can know me walking about with their medals. And at the moment I'm not, but I still believe there's still a big chance that I can do that.”
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“Think you need people who are really supportive at the start, I had a great owner at Preston North End, a couple of great owners who really supported me when I went to West Ham, I had great men who helped me at that time as well. And I think sometimes you need to be a bit lucky on your journey that if you turn up at a cob where an owner's making the sign-ins or you're not there, that he's only going to give you half a dozen games to show what you can do, you're probably going to find it, it's going to be very difficult to succeed. Maybe a bit lucky at the start, but I worried much more when I was younger than I would do now.”
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“Something fails, nothing quite work. You're nearly tentative. Do you think I could go again? Maybe nobody will help invest this, may, whatever it may be. So it's so important you do get it right when you do go in. But going back to, if I just have to, because I want to...”
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“So there's no one that's going to cut. You know what I mean? That's right. Well, what I'd say is, I think as a young manager, I worried much more. I think now in the position I'm in now and I worry far, far less because. It's in my blood. I love the game. I want to be here. I'm enjoying what I'm doing. But it wouldn't be the end of the earth if it if something went wrong for me now where I'm at. But my pride, my determination is that I want to be successful and I want to do a really good job for West Ham. But I think when you're younger, if you look now at young managers, young managers find it very difficult. If you don't do well in your first job, maybe like business, you know, in business, maybe you have a go and...”
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“I don't really give a shit now. I've got to say, I'm not going to get many more goes at this. So if I don't make a go to it and I don't really do what I think is right and what I want to do, then I'll regret it. So this part of me said, yeah, we had to bring in new players and we've gone out and we've put our head on the block and said, here we go, brought these new players in. Now what I really need is hope that I can get a little bit time to settle and get them settled in. I think we're brought in good players. I think we have a better squad, maybe not a better team at this exact time than what we had last year, but we've definitely got better players, which I believe will show that in the coming months.”
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“My experience, my longevity was telling me if I don't do this now, then I'm going to feel I'm going to be caught out. Now we probably didn't do quite as well from January on last year. That was my feeling. We had some brilliant nights. We got to semifinal European football. No, we'd been challenging all years. I mean, in the last game of the season, we finished seventh, but we were 10 minutes away from finishing sixth above Manchester United, you know. So the margins were incredibly small in all this, but I felt that. Now with the age, I'm nearly saying”
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“I actually think that we've bought our players, and I think that I've gone out there and said, this is what I'm doing. But I think sometimes I think in football, not that you need to break it, but we had a really good team for the last two years, but we'd a few Mark Noble was coming to them. One or two other players was coming to them where to change. And we were actually short in numbers. We were really short. The players of Dunton. I felt as if I nearly had to break it up a little bit because I had seen signs now.”
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“Success for West Ham, it's been success, and it's how we continue that success now, how we build on it. And I think if you're in business, I think you'll accept it. Quite often you have a couple of years or a good year and then you might not have it quite so good because of what we're a little bit like that at the moment, so I'm hoping that. Culturally, I think we have changed. I think we've changed a load of things at West Ham. We're not milky, we're not flaky. Think there's a different atmosphere in East End of London regarding how people see West Ham. Light the way we've done it, but we've also got some exciting, really exciting young players who those young supporters I talked about.”
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“Tried to change the team, but you know, deep down, I really like to say I'm trying to make West Ham better. And it used to always do, other people, I was a manager, Everton, I was manager at Man United and other clubs, folk would say, ah, you get a flaky West Ham, you know, they're not that reliable and you don't know what West Ham team's going to turn up. I want to change that culture. There's so much room for improvement at West Ham. You know, I think it's got great potential to improve. And I hope that I get the opportunity to keep it going with a couple of really, really good years.”
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“But that's what we're going to be looks like for the next hundred years. That's what it looks like. The cop's going to be there. So we need to make the best we possibly can of it. You know, I want to change there to be lots of young kids coming to West Ham. East End of London's a huge area, full of West Ham supporters. A lot of poverty in the area West Ham offer great ticket prices, great opportunities. They do brilliant work in the community, West Ham in East End of London. They really do. And I want to encourage all the young kids. Now what do you need? You need exciting players so that the young kids want to buy a jersey so that they're not following the top two or three teams in the country. And you want them to come so. I've tried to change.”
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“Well, I think for me, the biggest one was When I was at West Ham the first time we came in, we thought we'd done a good job and we kept the team up. We were asked to come in, we kept the team up and we didn't get the job and then another manager came in and we were out of work for a year. So then to be fair to the owner David Sullivan, he formed me a back up and he says, would you come in? I says, yeah, love to come back. No problem. I felt I had to do a bit more at West Ham or had to try and keep using, and I say it, I want to build a new West Ham. So what is a new West Ham mean? Well, a lot of people, a lot of supporters might not like the thought of that. But West Ham, I've moved to a new stadium. It's not been appreciated by everybody.”
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“Longevity I've had will probably hope that you've made more right decisions than wrong decisions. By the time you get round to making the final decis”
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“I've tried to say no to it, you know, and I've said, no, it's not the way I do the work. Now, if the players are good, I'd be saying, great, bring me them in. But then what we would do is if we get the name of a player, then we would try and do our homework and try and do other stuff. And by the way, we might be wrong. We're accepting that, but if we follow the correct process or what we believe is the correct process, It still comes out, no, we have to go with what we say now. If the process says, hey, by the way, we're hearing he's a good player, he's scoring lots of goals, he's young, you know, resellable, if it doesn't work. If all those other points come up, then we're saying, oh, wait a minute, maybe we have to think about it. But I think really trusting your process and hoping that.”
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“I think that's one of the things really in football where you would say. If an owner was going to do that, you say, No, come on, it's not right. It's part and parcel of football now. It's rife in football where a lot of owners are making assignings instead of the manager.”
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“We have the same situation we're talking about as we are buying players and we're spending a lot of money. You are and then you're saying you're saying no but you can't do this but we don't think you can do that. In the times maybe the older you get you would think this becomes easier, it actually becomes harder the more you're in it because you've probably seen the good ones, the bad ones. Yeah, this is we follow this path to try and get a good one but not so good anymore. We're going to follow another path so I've got to say hiring people and bringing them in is not an easy thing to do.”
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“Know what it's really interesting. Because there's so many jobs change in our industry, you see, how do you pick a good football coach now? How would you pick a football manager, whatever way you want to be, but how would you pick a good football manager? What would give him the owners or the people who are doing it? How are they picking it? Because again, what I said I says. Of course, we can think of some real special people who would be in that group. But if you're at a lesser club trying to pick a new talent, why would you get it? Has he got the drive? Has he got the energy? Has he got the love for the game to stay with it? Has he got an idea that he wants to go further and he's going to put the work in? It's really hard and sometimes you can't find him. And I get the feeling it's the same in industry now as well.”
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“Just recently, because we've been talking about it, you know, we've been. Alveres, who's just played for Argentina in the World Cup, you know, I brought in a new scout who says, look, you should go for Alvarez at River Plate and I watch them. I watch very good, really good technician. I thought he'd done so many good things as a centre for a bit. I thought maybe not quite the one we want, maybe didn't quite. We had Mickey Antonio who had been doing very well. I thought, I don't know if he's... And you see, sometimes the players change in six months. But I have to say there's other players like that who you don't take and don't go on to be a real success, but that one at the moment is just one because it was probably only a year ago where I decided, nah, I don't think it's probably the one we were going to take.”
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“What I think you do is I think it's the ones I've missed, the ones who you've said, nah, I don't think he's quite good enough. I think I'm going to. And I've had hundreds of them.”
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“I always say Nigel Martin are saying Nigel Martin the goalkeeper who was at Leg United and he was on a free from Legion United and we took him to Everton at the time. And it's only because he was a free, but not only that, he was a great goalkeeper. Obviously, he had been an England goalkeeper. He was probably near at the end of the time. But he gave me about four, five years of stability. But see, when people talk about signing your best signing, over the time I've now been, I've made that many signings. I've got, you know, it would be, it's really pretty shameful of me even to name one because I've got so many that I could say.”
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“All set for a few hours watching. If we wanted to take it even further, then we would go into much further detail. We'd eventually probably start trying to find out people who know the boy or has played with the boy and trying to get a bit of his character background would try and find out more about, you know, is he the right type? Is he a good boy? Is he a good trainer? Is he going to be disruptive in the training? I think all those things are really, really part of it. I don't think any football manager... Wants people who are not going to fit in and work with it. And I'm guessing I reverse back to business, probably you're the same. You don't want people who are not going to fit in with what you've got. You want somebody who's going to come in and blend in and be part of it.”
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“I think you in the main the scouts will probably bring them to you. I mean, look, if it's somebody playing for one of the teams locally or that and is available and you think there's a chance, then you'll probably try and do your homework, you'll try and obviously statistically you'll try and get it right, you'll try and look at their strengths and weaknesses, you'll take into consideration maybe the price is going to cost, where do you think it's where it fits in for you, what you can do. But the ones you don't know what you're looking for, your scouts to bring to you in quite a lot in modern football, it's the agents are bringing them, you know, because the agents are playing such a huge part, whether you see it as a positive or a negative, they're playing such a huge part behind the scenes in football at the moment. And these people will bring it. Obviously, if you're trying to sell something, you're always going to talk it up. But in the end, you know, we would, or I would always try and get my scouts to go through it. They would probably say, yes, this is worth coming and looking at coming.”
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“I did to many players. And I've got to say, we've had quite a few over the time, which I've got to say who I've had in my house, who I've had in... Offices, and we've probably not taken them sometimes because a bit like you said, sometimes something just makes you go, that's just not what I quite wanted to hear. That might only be a gut, and it might not. It might have no reason, and some of the boys I'm talking about, I've gone on to be superstars and play for other classes, but something at the moment can only give you that little bit of gut feeling if you think it sounds like it's going to fit for you. I'm not seeing you get it right, but I think at that time you have to have your own sort of things where you say, no, I'm not going to change. This is what I want to do and I want to keep it this way. And I've missed out on some.”
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“You'll probably find it really difficult. I think you'll find it really difficult to become a manager if you don't love the game or have real longevity. I think you could be a player and maybe get through your career 10, 15 years as a player with maybe without loving football. But I think if you want to go longer, I think you've badly got to love the business. When I became manager of Everton, but I did it before, I used to always meet the players and I still do if I can. Nearly wanted to see their eyes to see. I need you to work hard. I need you to know to do this job for the team. I like to see, are you going to take that I'm going to be critical of you and I want you to get better? Are you happy with it? You nearly wanted to put the questions over to them to see if they were going to take it.”
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“Always wanted someone who I thought Putting in effort. Always thought that, and they might say, Well, how can that come in front of many other things? Well, Can think of many, probably you, and you'll think of plenty of schoolboys, friends who were really talented players, but maybe weren't dedicated, didn't put in the effort to do the work. I think if you don't put the effort in the dedication to it, then the other thing that I use a lot is, you know, if you don't love the game completely.”
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“And I think one of the worst things you can do to people is, I think, if you keep praising people all the time, I think it makes you soft as well. So I think there's a level of praise you can give people, but I think you've also got to be really tough with your praise as well. And I actually think that as I've got older, I've become better in giving praise. I think there's some of my players I'm sure at Everton would say that I very rarely gave them praise because I was always looking for better from them.”
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“The difference now is I think we're in a different, and maybe yourself, and maybe you'll understand it's a different era. So as a coach and as a manager and as a man now, I think you need to find a way how you're moving on with that. Or you'd be left behind. And I've got to say, I think in my position, I've got to admit, I have to keep trying to... Renew, invest in more work and find out how it's gone on. There's so many. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean that I've still not got the bit of. Anger in me when I think the players need it. And I actually think I like to like it. I think sometimes they like it. I think people want to be told the truth.”
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“Let me tell you, I remember one of the managers coming in to the dressing room and all he said is, don't look up. Just look at the floor. Look at your boots. Look down because if you catch his eyes, he's going to come for you. So it used to be don't look up so that he couldn't have any eye contact with you and you had to, you know, and you'd probably put your head in the towel so that he couldn't see. Because that was the way it was. It was that. And I think that I probably had a lot of that and me when I first started.”
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“Very few now, and it might be that we're having to change your culture. So, going back to a little bit what you're talking about, Real said, getting in it, I think there was a period where the players looked after themselves or they could take the hard-hitting hairdryer treatment if you want to call it that. Now I think it's a completely different culture now, whether we've changed or whether I feel as if management is not necessarily in that form. I don't think, I don't know, maybe you, Steve, you'd tell me even better. You're head of businesses, would you go in and be screaming?”
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“There is a difference. I actually think the culture you're talking about Manchester Unity had incredible players and I wouldn't say self-made because they had a great manager but if you look now if I move to just now I'd be seen as there's much more communication in life now I came from a background where it was really tough the Scottish managers know they Probably the working background we came from, they would be out screaming at you at half time, they'd be screaming you at the end of the game, you know, they would be... They would be after you if you didn't do well. I don't think that culture's there, and I don't think it's changed completely in Scottish managers. And if you look at Scottish managers probably over history, Scotland had lots of managers in English Premier League, for example.”
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“So I think you have to see All round for you to give yourself the best chance. And I keep saying, as you know, to get to become a football manager, I don't think there's any one plan. You could be the best player on the planet and not become a football manager. You could be someone who's never played the game and become incredibly successful as a football manager. So I don't think there's necessarily one way you do it.”
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“It looks like you walk in every morning with your chest out and your head high and you're sort of confident in what you're doing. There's a motivation to keep it going, not to let it drop. There's something about having to continue to improve to stay at the top that you can't just do what you're doing, which is going to keep you there forever. You have to keep trying to find a way of doing so. I did see that and I feel that, and I've seen it at other cob sense. But I have to say, I think on the journey to probably where I'm today is probably more that seeing a lot of the other side as well is actually the bit which, you know, I've been a cub so I've been getting relegated. I've been at clubs where I can't wend. I've been at cops where it's not going well. I've been at cops where there's not been as powerful as, say, a cobble at Celtic.”
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“Scotland had great, great coaches at the time, you know, people like Sir Alex, Jim McLean, you know, Walter Smith, you know, I could go on and on. Scotland had brilliant coaches without naming the likes of Jock Steen and Bill Shankley. And you could go on and on, George Graham, for example. So I was sent down by Celtic and I was one of the runners for a couple of years. And once I was down, I said, I want more of this. I want to be around football people. I loved listening to them. Hoped that I would impress some of them who were managers of really big cobs at the time. And that's where I thought, well, no, I'm going to go and do my badges myself and went on to do them in Scotland.”
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“My own because I thought that maybe I'd find out more about it. But I have to say, there was a thing when we were young players when we were 16 at 30, we were sent to the courses to help the coaches. So we were called the runners. So we were down there to do all the running, you know, you had to do all the running, you had to be a foolback, you had to be a midfield player, and all the practices were put on for the coaches.”
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“Also, I was trying to pick up everything I could in. When I was twenty Had already qualified as a You have to have a pro license, but you have to, it was an E license. I'd qualified as a coach when I was 2021. Which was unusual, and the reason I'd done that was because the coaching courses were obviously full of really experienced managers, full of really lots of players trying to get into management. The only reason I went and done it was hoping that I'd become a better player. I thought that if I went on these coaching courses. Help me become even better as a player. And I had a really good career, but not quite at the elite level, which I really wanted to be.”
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“People who showed me, I don't know if you want to call it a philosophy because philosophy might be much deeper and might offer much more. Gave me somewhere to say, Well, I have to win, I have to find a way of winning. You know, if I can win with style, that's even better. But more importantly, I have to find a way of winning. And I picked that up from my early days at Certi, and I wasn't there that long. Not that I wasn't there that long, but I wasn't there that long probably as a senior player. I moved on and ended up bobbing around the championship and a couple of lower leagues in England for a long time. I come across some really great managers. Come across so much weren't so good. But I always try to be respectful to any of them because that came from my background and my upbringing.”
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“The fundamentals where I learned so much. But my early days when I started at Celtic was probably engraved in me more than anything because Celtic had an incredible tradition of winning. Now, obviously Celtic had to win with style as well. Celtic were the biggest Cobb Rangers in Glasgow, in Scotland, I should say. And because of that, Celtic had to win was always so important. So, no, I could see it was the first team, there was the reserves, there was the youth team. And all the managers were under pressure to win. Then if you did win, then it was, and what was the score? You won nothing. That's not good enough. You need to win. You need to win three or four nothing. You need to win by more calls. And how did you play? Well, we didn't play that well. We scored a known goal. It was a scrappy. Not good enough. You have to win with style. So I think my early days, I was brought up with brilliant footballers.”
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“That takes me back. So, you're saying, no, maybe Sir Alex, who played with from Chapel Amateurs, maybe he picked it up from his time at Drum Chapel Amateurs, you know, the way they had to turn up with shutting ties on and they had a blazer on. And again, this was just an amateur football team in Glasgow.”
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“Yeah, I do. I think they really do matter. I think sometimes they mean, and I have to say, if you jumped on to my senior time, I think they've always looked better. I think people have always looked better. They dress well and they're correct. They look prepared for the games. I jumped to Manchester United just quickly and see you. Manchester United had a rule which Sir Alex had that they would always turn up for away games and shirt and ties. Now most teams would rather turn up the tracks so the players can come more casual but Manchester United always turned up with a shirt and tie on which I thought was a great thing because they wanted to show what they were, wanted to come out there and say look the way we look the way we approach it you look at this Manchester United and I've got to say I really admired admired that part of it.”
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“Organization, commitment. And if I just sort of keep planning, at that time there was no mobile phones then, so it was the phone. So he would be phoning all the players to say, look, we're playing on Saturday. I want you to meet at 12.30. We're meeting wherever it was. And at that time, they all had to come at times with a shirt and tie on. They had to bring a bag. They all had to come with the same bag. Shot and tie, you've got to remember this is Glasgow in a time when you know people weren't, but people had to turn up with cotton tie on. If you didn't turn up with your collar and tie on, you might not get selected for a game. So small things like this, if you're talking about maybe disciplines or ways you were brought up, I think possibly I picked up a lot of the traits probably early on.”
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“I hope that I might have been good enough to become a player. I'm not sure I would be. I would love to be involved in football. And I always used to think that I'm hoping it maybe I could run an amateur team or I could be involved, I could maybe might be good enough to take a junior team, you know, might get paid a little bit of money coach for some day if I wasn't going to be a football player. Always thought even at that time when we were growing up, there was lots of youth clubs, so we would go to a school youth club, you know, because it was where you would get a game of table 10 is, you'd play pool, the gym might be there and you'd play five aside football whoever was there. So I always thought, well, maybe I might be able to work in a youth club or something if I didn't get in more better than that. So those early days, there was no guarantee that you were going to going to become a footballer. Every boy really wanted to become a footballer.”
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“Yeah, it was what it was is that time Celtic had a boys' club. And you have to remember my dad also, as I said, ran a very, very famous boys team, or one of the teams in Glasgow from Chapel Amateur. But I went to Celtic Boys Cub. And I played my Celtic Boys Cob from what I was about 12 to 16 till I went on. But they were brilliant years I had there. You know, my time at cell taker, which came after as a player and as a senior professional, not a senior professional, but a professional, I should say. But the young period when I was at Celtic Boys Club was, I can only remember being winning things and being really successful and representing Glasgow schools as a schoolboy representing Scotland schools as a schoolboy international. So I had really, really good days and early days probably from 1415 onwards.”
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“I think my dad would have definitely said, I hope you're a footballer. I think my dad would have always probably thought that he'd a great lover football as well. But I think they were always really supportive in anything I wanted to do. But I think, you know, as I got on and I got to an age where I was starting to get closer 12 or 13, I think football was probably my biggest sort of love and what I wanted to do. And I was more interested in either watching football playing football. And that was probably, they probably saw that roundabout that age as well.”
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“Think your penance will always influence you in some way. Was sent to church when I was younger. So I went to church. A lot of people were. And I think that probably had an influence as well in its own way in the early days. But I think more to do with schooling. More to do with education and what they try to do. And to be fair. None of them I was never pushed on anything, I was never pushed to be that well educated. I was never pushed to be a great football player. They were just encouraging really and all, was there to support. So I had parents who really let me grow up the way I chose to do. But everything was guided by them, respect, trying to be truthful all the time. All those things I think come into a good relationship.”
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