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I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.
It doesn't bother me what division I am managing in.
I like soppy films, sentimental stuff with children.
Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals
As for myself, you never know what is round the corner in football.
As I found at QPR, a club in the process of a takeover is paralysed.
The money players are on these days is immoral, but you can't knock it
You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.
I'm not sure I will watch a lot of professional football once I've retired.
There's two or three managers I can't stand. I detest them and they know that.
I don't think the authorities realise how much fans in general invest in their clubs.
Apparently I have 12 league games to go to get 1,500 and that is really tempting to me.
It's difficult to motivate yourself to do the workouts when you get older but I train hard.
My biggest achievement at Cardiff is bringing the whole club together in my two years here.
I find the quality of the officials in the Premier League so much better than the Championship.
I would like to apologise to anyone who has put a bet on me becoming the next Scotland manager.
I wanted to retire at 55. Now at 61 with two young kids, I want to spend a bit of time with them.
Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.
No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.
If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.
It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League.
My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.
I don't think we've got a discipline problem. It's the players who are thick who are causing the problems
If there is one thing worse for a manager than having an interfering owner it is uncertainty over the ownership.
I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.
Neil Etheridge in goal and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, they've both come from lower league clubs and done brilliantly.
As far as I can tell most people in football do not take colour into account when judging people. I certainly don't.
I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.
I don't have a desire to prove people wrong, as such, because if you take a look at my Premier League record it's not too bad.
As a manager, you know you're going to take the brickbats from other clubs and their fans. But I do enjoy making my own fans happy.
You do understand when you get into management that you will get the sack at some stage, but that never puts people off trying again.
The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.
The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.
It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.
Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as much as I thought.
It's suggested I am big pals with Willie McKay. Am I? I don't think I am. He is an agent. You need these agents if you want to do a deal.
Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.
That's what you want to do as a manager, finish the game, get in your bath and think about the kids going home, the young kids going home.
I can't say I ever got to the stage of swapping phone numbers with refs, but I don't have a problem with managers and referees communicating.
Trust is a big word for a manager. You expect certain standards and attitudes and they know if they lower those standards, I'll jump on them.
Working at Palace was one of the happiest episodes of my football career, even though the ending was one of the most upsetting and traumatic.
I don't think it is wrong to have a bit of banter with refs. My Dad would always manage games by talking to players and so did I when I reffed.
I never thought I'd rather watch England's cricketers batting for a draw than their footballers in the World Cup but it was a lot more exciting.
When I do pack it in, there's plenty for me to do down in Cornwall. There are some decent local teams, like Bodmin, that I'd like to go and watch.
Oh, I love Cornwall, it's so special. We bought the house when I was with Plymouth Argyle and we've just kept that on and kept modernising things.
I like experience in my side, but you need a balance and young players give you energy, pace and, often, a freshness which means they have no fear.
It's good to see Graham Alexander back in the game. He was such a tremendous professional as a player so I know he'll give management his best shot.
In football you never know what's around the corner, but by sticking together - directors, management, players and fans - we can look to do something.
I've played for managers who said one thing and did another and players find you out like that. You've got to trust them and they've got to trust you.
I had a player once whose wife had twins and one of them was in and out of hospital for a year. You just have to give people as much time as they need.