Curbs on Big 3

No club outside the Big 3 is likely to win the Premiership in the next three years according to Curbs in the March issue of 4-4-2. 'Liverpool or Newcastle may have an outside chance of winning it in the near future but you couldn't see anyone else breaking into the top group. It's not healthy for the Premiership to be dominated by the big teams ... A team who finishes between 10th and 17th in the Premiership only wins about 10 games per season, so that means if you support one of those clubs only one weekend in four are you going to have a smile on your face and enjoy a decent Sunday morning. That's not much is it? Most teams are just surviving and realise they can't win the Premiership which really isn't healthy.'

Curbs agreed that as players were getting richer they were getting more difficult to manage. 'Even at Charlton I've noticed a tremendous change with the players - you just have to walk through the car park to see how rich they all are now. You just have to make sure that players keep their hunger despite their riches.'

On referees, Curbs said, 'I don't moan too much about referees. I realise that as a smaller club we are not always going to get the rub of the green against the bigger clubs. The noise of the stadiums at the big clubs does influence the decisions of referees ... If I'm disappointed with something I will send Keith Hackett a video.'