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Burnley boss Kompany: Pressure the same for everyone

Burnley boss Vincent Kompany says he can handle the pressure of management.

Kompany insists the pressure is the same for every manager.

He said, “Pressure is pressure. I'm fine with it, I've never experienced football without pressure ever in my life.

"So, whether it's in this case the pressure to stay up or in another case the pressure to win every game. My biggest approach to this is just to focus on the things you can control. That's the most important. All the other aspects, there's more chance that it has a negative effect on the work you do than it has a positive effect - in both scenarios, whether you are at the bottom or at the top.

“In the moment in the game you can get angry, happy, you have passion, emotions but after the game, no, no chance. I became a manager not because I thought that I was going to win every single game - the only guy that wins every trophy is Pep. Everybody else, we suffer.

“I became a manager because I wanted to embrace all of it, good times, bad times. Ok now is a difficult time but I'm still getting a lot of value out of it, I work with a good team, and fantastic staff, we are a team and that for me is always the right environment to work in and the rest, things happen with a lot of hard work and that's what we do."

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