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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.Collection: Robbie
The more expensive your house, the more your insurance will cost.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
At the top end, the pathway from academy to first team has never been more difficult for home-grown youngsters.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
In fairness, 95 per cent of football fans are wonderful. A picture or an autograph is no problem for them.Collection: Robbie
Phil Neville deserves better than a feeding frenzy of carping over his appointment as England Womens coach.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
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.Collection: Robbie
If wildly variable refereeing standards not yet a crisis, we are reaching a tipping point. And it may take more than the dawn of VARs to sort out the mess.Collection: Robbie
When I was playing, it wasnt even close. Arsenal were the team to beat when you turned off the North Circular.Collection: Robbie
This is madness - when a single footballer is more expensive than building a hospital or school, the transfer market has lost its marbles.Collection: Robbie
I have always been an advocate of market forces and players being paid whatever clubs are prepared to pay them. Good luck to them.Collection: Robbie
You'll find that I've watched around 400 games at age-group level, from six to 14 years old, over the last eight years because both my sons play for academy teams - and I have not seen a single dive.Collection: Robbie
If you have ever played the game, you will know there are times when it is impossible to tackle an opponent without both feet leaving the ground, if only for an instant.Collection: Robbie
Brendan Rodgers is leading Leicester City back into the Champions League - and he is a future Manchester United manager.Collection: Robbie
In 2015-16, when Leicester won the title, I didnt really believe they were going to do it until the last four or five weeks of the season.Collection: Robbie
You know the madness of the English football season has kicked in when a fan rings up 606 and says Arsenal will win the title.Collection: Robbie
If you ask your players to be brave on the ball, sometimes they are going to make mistakes or get caught out.Collection: Robbie
I dont like Graham Poll. He thinks he is pretty special, and Im not quite sure why.Collection: Robbie
I'd rather blow up than fizzle out. I don't want to fade away and go down the leagues.Collection: Robbie
I'm not the most articulate guy in the world or the most educated but whatever I get into I'm passionate about and give everything I've got.Collection: Robbie
I'm not a Gary Neville or a Jamie Carragher, or somebody who doesn't need to do their apprenticeship in the media and can go straight into it because they've played for massive clubs. I've had to work at it but I believe I am better than them.Collection: Robbie
I'm horrendous at dancing but I think if you do 'Strictly', you go on to another level, and that's a level I have never been at.Collection: Robbie
The thing is, I think all my experiences, good and bad on the football field, helped me in my punditry because Ive been in situations where Ive gone to ground too easily, Ive made a mountain out of a molehill, Ive tried to get players sent off for the good of my team, wrongly. Ive acted stupidly, celebrated.Collection: Robbie
I believe I had an unbelievable career. Because there are so many kids who will never get the opportunities I had with more footballing ability.Collection: Robbie
I dont regret for one minute that I only won one trophy because again, to play at Wembley and lift the trophy, how many players can say that? Of course, Id like to have been in contention to win trophies every single year, but I wasnt, but I can sleep easy at night knowing I got the best out of what I had.Collection: Robbie
If have done well for Leeds then Id have loved to have played for Manchester United, that would have been great.Collection: Robbie