Paul Robinson has been speaking in the lead up to the England international friendly against Paraguay.
He says that the public have the wrong perception of the current England boss and that he isn’t fazed by the possibility of making mistakes at the World Cup as he looks to keep the England number one position for a very long time.
He said: ‘You’ve got to relish the sort of challenge presented by a World Cup. If you go into games thinking what people are going to say about you afterwards, you are on a loser before you start. You’ve got to be very confident. You are in an unfortunate position in that if you do make a mistake, it gets highlighted if you are a goalkeeper. But you can’t worry about that before a game. There is a lot of pressure and we all know that doing well in the World Cup will mean a hell of a lot to so many people. People think sometimes that we don’t care – but we do.’
Adding ‘It matters to us more than anything. We are the ones who want to win every single game and do well in the World Cup this summer.’
He also promises, now he has the England No1 shirt that he intends to keep it ‘for a lot of years to come.’
On Sven he says
‘He got us to where we are and we want to win the World Cup for him as much as anyone else. Of course we care what the FA do. It is very important they get the right man for the job and it is up to them when they appoint him. But at the moment we know where we are for the next three or four months. We’ve got Sven in charge for a very important tournament we want to do ourselves justice in.’
He says in the Guardian: Full article: Click Here
‘The general public have this perception of him now. For me, it’s the worst thing about football. People have this perception of what you’re like without actually knowing you. And the only way they get that perception is because of what is built up in the media and shown on television. If people actually knew the manager they would know what a nice man he really is.’
He’ll be even ‘nicer’ if he wins us the World Cup!
He adds ‘We’ll hopefully send him out on a high’ insisting: ‘He’s very popular among the players’ and the women apparently!!
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