On 12.30pm kick-offs away from home...
In general, I think the league where I'm coming from in Holland, they are more aware and try to help the teams that play in Europe more than it happens over here. But to be fair to the English FA, our schedule here is so tight that it's so, so difficult. And I think it's something that has to do with the people that are sitting in front of me, so television stations – I have a feeling I do an interview every day. That's why we play at 12.30 because I think they can pick which team they want to have on at 12.30 and then it's nine out of 10 times Liverpool is included. I don't think it has so much to do with the 12.30 kick-off, for me it has to do [with] that every away game is difficult.
I showed them last week that 10 out of 19 away games last season didn't lead to a win. So you can then argue if it's 12.30 or is it just difficult to play an away game? And we can come up with Newcastle, Forest and there were two others where there were last-second winners. So, that shows you how difficult it is to play an away game, especially for us, in this league. Because we play so many times then at 12.30, people talk about 12.30. I think we have to talk about an away game and [how] that is difficult, because if 12.30 was a difficult time to perform then I'm a really stupid manager because we train every day at 12 o'clock. I don't see the idea behind it being that difficult performing at that time.
