2. Being Positive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNHDLVnv5NM He is into psychology especially the psychology of winning. Confidence in your own ability and in yourself is the key. A footballers confidence can be brittle. Its an invisible thing but absolutely key to performance. He cites the example of the Oxford Boat race crew that he studied as part of a course. He talks about the example set by the great athletes. He has never thought that he has consciously copies Cloughs style but one thing has remained with him: Playing on the front foot, he used phrases like that. Its very general but everybody in football understands it. Its been around for years but he was always using that play on the front foot expression. I think theyre quite generic in football now but they were the first time Id heard things like that. I think here weve played on the front foot from pre-season and a lot of the time, not all of the time. Its all in the mindsets Ive had with the players. Its a general term but everyone understands what it means; being positive in the way you play. That positivity is one of the keys to his man-management. Never say never is one of his mantras. Dont set limits on yourself. Its a mindset that has served players well in games where they have gone behind and come back to win. He talks of the game at home to Leeds United when they went 0-1 down but the positive attitude instilled into them drove them on to a 2-1 win in a very difficult game.