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Hodgson said: “I didn’t feel drained but you do feel wounded. I have had a very good spell in my career and it’s a long time since I have had a very serious knock-back so, when it comes, it wounds you.

“You wouldn’t be human if it didn’t but it hasn’t dented any confidence or belief. But I can’t lie and say it didn’t hurt me, or I didn’t care, because, of course, I care. I care very passionately about my job and I care about football and I have had an awful lot of praise. So, when you get the opposite, it’s not something you particularly embrace, but, if you’ve got half a brain, you accept that as being part of the job or par for the course.”

- Hodgson ‘wounded’ by Liverpool stint, Soccernet.com, February 15, 2011.

2. Mackintosh had always been a drinker. There are stories that he would work all night in the offices of the Glasgow architectural firm Honeyman and Keppie, filling page after page with drawings, emptying a bottle of whisky as he did so. But that was par for the course in Glasgow at the time, reckons Macaulay. “I think he drank heavily always. There was very much a drinking culture. People go on about it now, but it’s nothing new. There were all these drinking dens of various levels of respectability all over the city.

“Alcoholism and drunkenness were major problems. They were a major problem in the First World War. That’s why in certain areas the pubs were nationalised – to curb the drinking of the workers in the munitions factories.