Lawrie: I miss Saturdays - not Monday to Friday!

6:00am Saturday 13th October 2007

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"I WAS speaking to Terry Venables this week ahead of England's games," writes Lawrie McMenemy in today's Daily Echo.

"We are both getting involved in the Peter Osgood Trust set up recently by Peter's widow Lynn.

"It was only a couple of days after two of Terry's old clubs, Crystal Palace and Queens Park Rangers, had parted company with their managers - Peter Taylor and John Gregory respectively.

"In addition, Willie Donachie left Millwall and then Peter Grant was shown the door at Norwich.

I don't think Peter did himself any favours after losing to fellow strugglers QPR last Monday.

"He apparently said he would have to assess if managing was the right job for him to do because he wanted to grow old and not be old at 42.

"If his directors had been having second thoughts, he certainly made their minds up for them.

"It's never been the easiest of jobs, no matter what people think.

"Terry asked me if I missed managing and I said without a doubt on a Saturday but not too much Monday-Friday.' "I pulled his leg and said he had the best job in England, having done the same myself as number two to Graham Taylor.

"But whilst I had the added role of managing the B and under-21 teams, Terry is solely working with Steve McClaren's first team.

"The day-to-day club problems include buying and selling players, strengthening squads and dealing with fixtures which come thick and fast.

Being with a national team has none of those problems."

Read the rest of Lawrie's views in today's Daily Echo.