To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.

There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if you're a club manager, but other than that, I haven't found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.

Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.

Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.

There aren't many English managers, I suppose, who've had the sort of career that I've had, outside the country. With the amount of money that is going around in the Premier League, not many people are tempted to move abroad.

I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.

I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

The day it becomes impossible for teams like Palace to get results against City, the league might as well just fold up, and we'll do everything on paper.

I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do this for maybe 10 years, save a little money, then perhaps start a little business together.' Some sort of travel agency. We had no football thoughts beyond that, other than maybe combining it with a bit of sport, getting a few tours going.

I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national team.

It hasn't always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They're there to support us through the hard times.

I think, increasingly, people will define success as staying in the League, being a stable Premier League club that treats its fans to good football every year.

I'm always disappointed when we lose, and it's happened quite a few times.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

The main problem with English players has always been the price.

I have been in football a long time, and Wayne Rooney has been in football a long time. He would regard me as someone who is very false if I ever said to him, 'Your place is guaranteed.' He would not expect it, and I would be very upset anyway if anyone asked me to give them a guarantee of a place.

It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.

I am not only privileged to work for the FA and England: I have enjoyed working for the FA and England.

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

New faces, maybe perking up the squad and giving you another arrow to your bow - that can be a help.

I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Richard Yates.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.