“I’m not like I normally am before a game, I must say,” he admitted in his pre-match interview. “The game on Wednesday night and this one have been really hard for me to prepare myself mentally.
“We try and prepare the players of course, but for myself it’s been such a whirlwind to try and process all the nice things people have said, and to suddenly realise that the day where I won’t be coaching a football team will be here.
“That has not been easy for me.”
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