Ange Postecoglou

The league was all on me, by the way.

Yes.

I think we'd lost to Arsenal when the reporter asked me and...

But I just thought, you know what, I've got to double down on this because I'll get eaten alive here.

Like I said, we spoke about Spurs and the kind of club.

I've just got to back myself here.

And I think if nothing else, it resonated with the players, right, and the coaching staff.

They go, okay, like you said, put his balls on the line.

Okay, well, let's see how we go from here.

Because I think if I shied away from it at that point, it's a slippery slope then, mate, trying to grasp it back.

For all intents and purposes, you're a leader, right?

I mean, you don't want to see leaders who are kind of... ..don't have self-belief in what they're doing because then how are you going to ask a group of people to sort of follow you after that, you know, if you will?

And look, that... I mean, I was getting towards back in the last year, I was...

I said I had the helmet on, I was confident whether, you know, I'd get sacked and stuff.

But I think the players saw that, all right, he's not making excuses, he's still backing us.

And I think that all paid dividends for me at the end, right, when I needed the players and the staff.

Because that's the one thing you know and you would have known, that even you, Roy, when things aren't going well, if you've lost the dressing room, then you're gone.

You go, I've got no chance here.

But I never felt that, you know.

I always felt the dressing room is in the players and the staff.