In this month's issue, the Scot when asked "When you look back at Coventry,do you feel guilty? said: "No, I don't. We could all share in the guilt, but what you must remember is that Coventry were in the top division for 30 years and anyone who has been there will know that was an incredible feat.
I was there 2 years as player-coach and helped them stay up playing into my late 30s. I helped once as player-manager and then for 3 years as manager, so that's 6 times I helped keep Coventry in the Premiership. That's a fifth of the time they were there. Only Oggy and Brian Borrows, maybe Richard Shaw, can say that.
Of course I take some of the responsibility in taking them down and it cost me my job, but I also deserve some credit for my role in keeping them up.
It was hard. I took 9 months of abuse there, but I look back and I can be philisophical.
Are the bad times a good way of learning the managerial game? Of course they are. But I could've done with a bit less of it than I had at Coventry.