“But when you’ve got four points from 11 games in the Premier League and you’re not winning at home, you haven’t got control of the situation.
“You may be gaining a foothold and you may be seeing more in your performances and you might take the compliments from Roy Hodgson and think that’s wonderful, but Roy wouldn’t have said that if it had been a 0-0 draw or had he lost 1-0.
“You can always be generous when you’ve walked away and thought ‘blimey, this was a smash and grab’.”