Portsmouth No2 Tony Adams admits he could've done better with Cardiff defender Roger Johnson when the pair were together at Wycombe Wanderers.
"I've spoken to Dave Jones and Terry Burton about him, and they've kept him on his feet a lot more. He had a tendency to go to ground. Maybe it was misdirected at Wycombe, but he was strong willed with an attitude about him. He was a young man, he was learning and he was in a poor team.
"I don't need to defend my treatment of Roger, but I didn't have the time to coach him as I would have liked. I was only there for a year, and three months of that was summer holiday. I needed results with a very poor team, and probably did him a favour by taking him out of it. Wycombe were losing £6,000 a week, the club was going down the Swanee and, no disrespect to Roger, but he was way down my list of priorities. That was one of the reasons I left, because I knew I had to spend more time coaching players."
