"I gathered the players at training and I said to them 'if you think I'm leaving this shower of a shambles you're not on so I've decided to stay."
"There was certainly an improvement as the next home match we beat Derby convincingly. At that point it was just a ploy - I was just trying to get a reaction from and it worked .I had no real intention of staying on at that moment."
As you know, he announced he was staying about a month later.