Steve McClaren
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You know, no one will and can't explain the pressure that managers feel.
I couldn't.
Not even that.
You know, you are all emotional.
You know, I remember...
when I went to Derby and Darren Wassil was taking a game and he was there and he took the game and then I took over the team the next game and I said, how was your first season?
He says, all these courses we go on, all this at St.
George's Park, just do not prepare you for that.
Because I think he played the game and he was 3-0 down, I think 4-0 down at half-time.
And that's pressure.
You think this is going to get bad, this is going to get worse.
And, you know, I've had bad defeats and you internalize it.
And you can't, you just can't, you have to be in that position.
You can't, I can't say, well, imagine that.
Yeah.
And that's what it's like.
You have to experience it.
And only those who have, and that's presumed, that's at every level.
I speak to my friend who...
You know, I was doing Eastleigh, you know.