The Charlton manager still probably has nightmares about the recent encounter relating to his meeting with the FA he endured.
"The problem I had was that we had a game that Sunday. If we'd played on the Saturday, I wouldn't have had the cameras in my face at the ground and it would have been easier for me. My reaction could have been kept private."
"I was the manager of Charlton, getting caught in a meeting with another potential employer prior to a game. I had the chairman's permission to talk to the FA, but I never told him I was going to that meeting. I didn't even tell the missus. The first she knew of it was when we got the phone call, saying it was all over the Sunday papers."
"When Charlton came in for me they were near the bottom of the old Second Division. Carol was eight months pregnant and I wanted to get back to London. I thought: ‘I'll go there for three or four months, remind everyone what I can do and a bigger club will take me'. If I hadn't come then, I might not be here now."
Curbs is also not very taken when people expect as a candidate for the England job, that his side should be capable of a better performance than it managed against a free-scoring Arsenal side at Highbury.
"We go to Arsenal and I get told I don't know what I'm doing because I've got a side that's inferior," he added.
Source: The Sunday Times