Craig Burley

I was his neighbour for years.

My wife asked his wife about something to do with tickets or mascots or that.

And the message came back and said, give it a bit of time.

This is not run like a normal football club.

So at that point, they knew that if it wasn't, if they weren't getting results, they were out.

But they would have known that when they took the job.

So you can't be shocked when you're working for this fella because he just hires and fires at will.

And they are in stum.

They are in stum.

Since all this Nuno Espirito Santo and Edu and the owner, since they all get in this sort of head for head, there was only going to be one winner in terms of who kept the job and who lost the job.

And that was going to be Nuno losing his job.

But that was to the detriment, if we're being honest about it, that was to the detriment of the football club, the team and the results.

Yeah, I said to you during that piece, I've got so much respect for lads like that out there grafting.

in a normal 95 job, you know, coaching kids, couple of days a week, some of them, and then getting out there, grafting, getting their opportunity.

Because most of them will never play in the Premier League.

Probably no one will play in the Championship or even League One.

But these are the big moments for them.

And you just, they were 10 feet tall.

And the other thing was,

came across from that interview, they just seemed so grounded, these guys.