They were great days, great nights at St James’ Park and I remember them with affection. Maybe they are forgotten too quickly.
ALAN PARDEWI would not want to be the Europa League in the current format, that’s for sure.
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Thursday night games are difficult to contend with given the level of physicality we deal with in the Premier League.
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Emirates Stadium should be named after Arsene Wenger.
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It’s probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.
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If you’ve seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term ‘dementors’ – people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy.
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If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.
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It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.
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You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.
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These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.
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I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now.
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So we eradicate the ‘dementors’, encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here.
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We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.
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I didn’t listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn’t let it enter my brain.
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I did as well as I could at Newcastle.
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You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to.
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It’s important that top clubs don’t lose sight of the fact that it’s the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
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