Is the English talent pool deep enough to cope with losing that amount of big players?
A. The pool has slowly dwindled down to a number which isn’t acceptable. We look at our Premier League and we look at the actual feeding grounds where English players come from and we find it’s inundated with foreign players. The last count, I think 38% of English players play in the Premier League. And a very small percentage of them playing in the top four, playing in Europe, playing in the Champions League. That’s where you have to play to get the experience for international football. That is the only sort of level, with that type of pressure. Q. Have a look back at your time, the 18 months you had there. Have you been able to put your hand on your heart and say what went wrong, find out what the problem was? A. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and you look back and think if only that had happened, but I think the major thing for me was the horrendous injuries that we had. Injuries picked up on Friday afternoons and losing key players were important. We didn’t have enough of Michael
