Chris Hughton

Of course, my upbringing, my mother and my aunties and so,

But it was... What were your teammates like with all the Irish jokes and everything?

Well, no, but at the time there was obviously a good mix of lads like myself, Irish background, that were born in England.

So probably the strength of that team through the 80s would have been lads that had Irish parentage that were...

born and brought up in England that are qualified for Ireland.

So in some ways it was a very diverse, sounds a little bit interesting to speak of that, but very diverse changing room with a lot of quality in it and a lot of top division quality as well.

Chris O'Huton.

Yeah, well I've been called that on a good few occasions.

No, very proud of what myself and my staff were able to do.

The objective, it's four and a half years I was there, so the objective was first to stabilise the club.

When we went in, the club were in the bottom three in the Championship.

I think it was a false position, but the fact that come the 1st of January, that's where they were.

So it was about stabilising and making sure that we stayed in division.

But I've had, and right through that period, I had great support from the club.

I think we recruited well in the various windows, particularly that first window, brought a lot of experience in.

And then embarked on a two-season campaign of trying to get to the Premier League, just missing out incredibly on that first full season.

finishing in third place I think some 15 points above fourth place and missing out on goal difference so I think for the players then to come back in that summer having gone through the huge disappointment of just missing out to go again and sort of emphatically getting it was

was probably... I had two big experiences of promotion.

My first one, of course, was Newcastle and Brighton.

And probably, for me, this was a bigger achievement.