 100% We're creating this environment, unfortunately, where everyone is coach dependent. There has to be a level of responsibility for themselves. I don't remember ever getting coached. It swung completely to the other extreme now. We learnt because senior players told us and moved us into positions, and you had to pick things up on your own and pick them up quickly. Nowadays, the players are being coached and coached and coached, and so they become dependent upon that. But I think it's vitally important then that the coach provides them with opportunities, time and equipment and assistance in order for them to develop themselves. Putting players in pairs, giving them time before sessions, giving them time after sessions to work on things that will improve their game. I don't think I've ever worked with a young player that hasn't had certain things about his game that might have stopped him from becoming a professional footballer, and it's up to you to identify what those things are and try and either improve them or hide them, because they might never be any good at them, so try and put them in a position where they don't have to worry about that. A 5ft 2 player is never going to be good in there. He might be able to edit, technically he might be able to edit, but there's no point in hoping that he's going to become the serial threat or something. Forget about that, I've worked with some really good wingers who were not good at tackling. I wasn't going to waste my time making them good at tackling because they were never going to be any good. I'd much rather make them better at dribbling and better at crossing and better at seeing opportunities to pass and create chances. It's continually looking at each individual player and saying, what can I do to help him to become the best that he can be? I like this question because I think the world has changed a lot, because when I was a kid I was playing with a stone on the floor. I was playing against a wall. I had a ball in one bag and I was playing with that ball and now it's completely different. The playstations are mobile and so it's completely different, but it's true that in the past you trained the technique on yourself, because again you had five, six friends, four bags, and you had two goals, one ball, and you played football. Now it's different, but it's true that it's always important to learn on your own because at the end with your team you're going to be just one hour or one hour and a half. I think it's massive. There's a lot of stuff on the 10,000 hours to become elite at anything. I don't necessarily believe that, but what I do believe is that the younger you can be, just to get that feel for the ball, just to get touches on either foot, just to learn to dribble either foot, turn, master the ball. Of course 20 years ago he didn't have phones, he didn't have iPads. You spent a lot of time with the ball and that's why I think there's so much. To master anything, to master any skill, you have to put time in. You have to love it and I think that's where the passion comes in. If you're passionate about it, you'll want to do it and you'll want to challenge yourself in different ways. For me it's just the more comfortable you can be, particularly in today's game, on the ball, receiving the ball, turning and as boring as it is sometimes, bear the things you need to do up against the wall, bang, receive, turn, back, receive our volleys, volleys, just so you're comfortable in any type of scenario and I think for me that's the thing. If you haven't got that technical mastery it's very difficult to then use it when you become under pressure in a game. For me I still think that it's so important, so important to put in that extra time on your technical abilities and I'm sitting here as a coach but you've only got to ask these top players, your Lampards and Steve Gerrards, Ronaldo's and Harry Kane, Harry Kane who I knew was a young player and I think probably has surpassed everything that some people would have thought perhaps when he was younger. The large majority that is down to him, the extra work that he puts in himself, he's had great coaches and great backing behind him. That's a part of the game, there's no doubt that there are particular skills that you are going to learn in playing in numbers, five-a-side, small-sided games. They're massive, particularly in the modern game but one thing about a game that will always be there, it's a technical game and if somebody can improve a technique by 5%, 10%, it's going to give them a better chance, it will give them better options. Let's put it this way, so up until probably say 15 years ago, it might have been more than that but let's just say 15 years ago, that's how players learn, it's as simple as that. So we've got these fantastic academies and they're brilliant, they're absolutely brilliant and it's one of them now, my kids are a little bit older now but if I ever had more kids then it's a great environment to go and put your kids when they're age of 5, 6 and 7 and they get so much out of it but we never had that 15 years ago or maybe even 10 years ago so we had to find a way of getting that and we didn't realise there was a way of getting that but you used to play on the street, you used to go and kick the ball up against the wall, you used to play two touch off the wall or have a wally with your mate or playing off the curb or anything like that, just perfecting your technique so it's massively important, it's a cheat way of learning, you don't have to pay for it, there's always a wall somewhere that you can find or a garage door, whatever it may be, it's not that expensive to get yourself a ball so it's massively key because you get the best of both worlds, you get the opportunity to work with fantastic coaches in great environments and regardless whether it's grass roots or professional but then you've got the opportunity to learn how it used to be back in the day. Well you set your standards, I believe, throughout your career and you try to keep them up, you know exactly what you're looking for from the players. I think more importantly you want your standard of training to be very good, you want the players their level of commitment to be very good and I think you're really keen to work with players who are energetic and want to help and show that they want to get better as well. I think the days where coaches can work with players who are maybe not that way I don't think works now, I think players have really got to be keen to learn and improve as well but I think to continue your improvement you have to keep going out to look even now in the roles I've had, I think the big thing is not to sit behind the desk and think that that's it, you've made it when you get a good job, I think it's finding ways and I think young coaches like watching a session today like watching similar sessions, I think it's a way of improving. I spent years and years on the road trying to go and watch clubs train or countries train, went to different international seminars all round Europe to try and find out more but I think nowadays because of programmes like this and the coaching that you can find out there I think there's other ways you can look to finding and improve. Go that way. If I've got them facing this way like the small games, what did we say? If you can just touch the bottom of his back, you're close enough to him. I don't need to be doing this. So just enough to see the ball so if he turns either way then I've got a chance of taking it off him.