I removed Trevor Francis on his birthday and offered to post his P45 in his birthday card.

Parachute payments aren't evil but they do ensure achieving Premier League status is a blessing, not a curse or a route to the poor house.

In real life I have always been a huge risk-taker, a person who believes and invests in other people's ambitions, so not quite a philanthropist, but certainly a pseudo-Renaissance man.

One of the ludicrous myths I found in football is that people have got to be given time. Whether it's a year or 18 months, if you're seeing no progress whatsoever and you keep on giving them that time, then you keep on not progressing.

If you have ambition in football that's the dangerous thing because the ambition will drive you on to make decisions that commercially you might not make in any other business.

The bottom line is if you want to own a football club you have to pay the price to have success.