Steve McClaren

We can't land.

It's the Russians.

So, in fact, John Terry actually phoned Abramovich on the plane.

And said, Roman, we can't land.

For some reason, we are not landing and we're going round and round in circles.

And five minutes later, all of a sudden, we landed.

I thought, that's influence for you.

Yeah.

The Chelsea captain delivered for England that day.

And we trained on the artificial that we were going to play on the night before.

And it was dry, born dry.

And we come to play the game and they soaked it.

So whereas we trained on it and it was slow, they soaked it.

And in the warm-up, it was rapid and lightning.

So...

we had that to to contend with so so that was the first one and i thought we were a little unlucky in the game and one or two things but maybe then we come back got the look and the result um and yeah we played croatia and i actually thought we're gonna win two no down come back to two two i thought good changes second half when we're back two two and about 15 20 minutes to go and

Someone hit a long shot from 30 yards and unbelievably went in.

So, yeah, some things happen that you can't control, which is why you have to control the controllables.

You knew it would cost you your job?

Oh, without a doubt.