Alan Curbishley
Alan Curbishley
Llewellyn Charles "Alan" Curbishleyis an English former football player and manager. He played, as a midfielder for West Ham United, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, Charlton Athletic and Brighton & Hove Albion and has worked in the Premier League in management roles at Charlton Athletic and West Ham United. In December 2013 he was appointed technical director at Fulham only to be removed from the role in February 2014. He again joined Fulham's coaching staff in March 2015...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth8 November 1957
loads questions teams
They are exceptional, ... They've posed loads of questions for everyone in the Premiership, and it's up to the big teams to respond.
loan move playing reasons regularly swing time variety
For a variety of reasons they haven't been playing regularly so it's time to see if they can get a loan move and get back in the swing of things.
although dreadful looks round turning woods
It looks as if we are turning it round after that dreadful run, although we're not out of the woods yet.
forward obviously opportunity perfect players surplus wanting window
There may be players wanting to leave, and obviously I have a surplus in the forward area, so this window is the perfect opportunity for that to happen.
bonus gave goals half hold second
Then we got the bonus of the goals, which gave us something to hold on to and in the second half we were not under that much pressure.
forward great work
We're better than we showed today. A lot of that's down to Chelsea. Not only are they great going forward but they work so hard.
allowed football loan needs
We've allowed him to go out on loan because he needs to play some first-team football,
bottom teams
We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.
cost good switched tonight tough
We were tough tonight though, I don't want to make out we weren't. We battled and scrapped, but we also switched off, and that undid all the good work, and cost us two points, and that's why I'm frustrated.
claus clear contract deal felt needed remaining renew wish year
Claus had one year remaining on his contract and made it clear that he didn't wish to renew his deal as he felt that he needed a new challenge.
change difficult everybody game head mistake quality
(Chelsea) is powerful, disciplined, well-organized and they have got so many match-winners. If you don't make a mistake like we did for the first goal, they have so much quality that can change a game on its head which is difficult for everybody else.
amount clean drawn front fruitful games goal helped scoring sheets start
If you look at the amount of games we have drawn then it's about average, but they've just all come at the same time. The clean sheets have helped us back on track. Now that we've tightened up I want us to get back to being more fruitful in front of goal and start scoring some more.
care happens player
He's their player and they'll take care of the operation. We'll have to see what happens after he's had the surgery.
confidence football hopefully playing
Hopefully we will get back to playing some of our football once the confidence returns.