"And I'm stood here on the first day, before we've kicked a ball, to tell you the people who wrote that have not watched what I've watched."
Flat. No shouting. The way you say a thing you actually mean and want a man to hear once and not forget.
Then I gave them the only real answers I was ever going to give, because there were honest questions buried under all the noise and a few of them deserved a straight reply, and answering the fair ones in my own time, unasked, is a different thing entirely from standing at a desk being shouted at.
"Two things people have a right to ask, so I'll answer them before they do. One. Is this fair on Crystal Palace." I nodded, like the question was a good one, because it was.
