Robbie Savage Quotes

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Robbie Savage

Profession : Footballer

Birth : October 18, 1974

And a bit of discipline never did 14-year-olds any harm.

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As the manager, Ive told my players that if anyone is sin-binned for backchat to referees or officials, they will miss the next two games - with no promises that they will get back in the side.

Robbie Savage

The more expensive your house, the more your insurance will cost.

Robbie Savage

At highly-charged games, clubs need to employ experts who understand the tribal emotions of football and the potential for incidents. We need highly-trained security personnel, stationed two or three metres apart, with earpieces for communication, around the perimeter.

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The pitch is a footballers workplace. Fans have no more right to be on it during a game than a burglar has being in your house.

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If you have a big crowd for a derby game where passions run high, you dont ask inexperienced stewards to keep an eye on them for pocket money. You need to employ professionals and pay them the going rate.

Robbie Savage

With only 30% of players in Premier League squads qualified to play for England, the accent on developing home-grown talent is heavier than ever.

Robbie Savage

Growing up, my generation would practise on concrete in the backstreets, using garage doors or the health-centre walls as goals. Taking on the older boys in the neighbourhood taught me to be humble, too.

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At the top end, the pathway from academy to first team has never been more difficult for home-grown youngsters.

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Owners and chairmen prefer to buy in talent as investments against relegation at one end of the table, or to attain the holy grail of European football at the top end.

Robbie Savage

We read and hear a lot about the celebrity culture of football these days, but some people seem to believe that players or coaches who are millionaires by salary are fair game in public.

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As a player, I was a pantomime villain and I had my limitations. But I was also good enough to captain four Premier League clubs, win 39 caps for my country and be transferred for fees running into millions of pounds.

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In fairness, 95 per cent of football fans are wonderful. A picture or an autograph is no problem for them.

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Phil Neville deserves better than a feeding frenzy of carping over his appointment as England Womens coach.

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I have known Phil Neville personally for 25 years, since I was in the Class of 92 at Manchester United with his brother Gary, and Im going to stick up for him because he is a top, top bloke and a proper family man.

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Whatever he has achieved in football, Phil Neville has always bounced back from adversity - from giving away a crucial penalty at Euro 2000 to being thrown in the deep end as a pundit at the World Cup in Brazil.

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Not many people leave a job where they have fallen short and land another one higher up the ladder. Nice work if you can get it.

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Great players don't always make great managers, but I hope a golden generation of fantastic players' knowledge is not going to be lost when they surely have something to offer as coaches.

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Too many points are being won or lost on the back of bad decisions which could cost clubs a place in the Champions League or send them down.

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If we are going to ban players for alleged dives, its time there was a panel of ex-managers and players who put blundering referees on trial - and absolute howlers should be punished with a ban, the same as retrospective action against players.

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