Geoff
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I think we know what you thought.
Gary, was there a possibility that the reason he did that was if he was looking at you, there you go, and the way he played the game, there you go, Gary Neville.
Have some of that.
How dare you think you can just pitch up here in La Liga, be a top-class coach, take all your ideas, your media career, and do one.
He's given you some of that.
At which point they're looking at you and thinking, forget it, he's got a marriage on.
You don't.
What effects do you think the whole experience had on you, short, medium and long term?
Were you worried that your credibility as a pundit would have been damaged?
OK, to wrap up on Valencia, Zane,
Even though you admit a long list of things that you got wrong, is there still part of you who's glad that you did it and what it taught you?
That's a given.
He's your partner and he's your friend.
That's a given.
But it came at a personal cost to you in terms of your confidence, your reputation to a degree, all of those things.
But where we are now, four years on, is there a part of you
that can honestly say, even though you're self-critical of it, you're still glad that it happened.
Don't regret it.
Don't regret you did it, but you regret the way you did it.
your biggest mistake was not taking me as the press officer.