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Gary O'Neil has won three Championship play-off finals at Wembley Stadium, played at Anfield, Old Trafford, the Emirates Stadium and Stamford Bridge and rubbed shoulders with a whole host of Premier League greats. But nothing prepared him for the nervousness he felt when he had to make presentations on his UEFA Pro Licence coaching course.
"You'd think that playing at Old Trafford in front of 80,000 people is far more nerve-racking," the former Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and West Ham United midfielder tells Bleacher Report. "But because that's what you're accustomed to. Getting up to speak in front of a room full of people is more difficult.