"If you create this comedy character of wealth and opulence swanning around, people hate you, " he told The Independent in 2010.
"I expected the way people behaved to be different and I have been very disappointed in the way some agents have conducted themselves, " he told the Independent newspaper.
He has previously ruled out the possibility of investing in the Canaries, until he recently told the Independent "never say never" when asked about football funding.
He also told the Independent newspaper he had been "stupid" to have an affair with his secretary Tracey Temple.
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He briefly quit radio for a stint on the Channel Four breakfast show RI:SE, which he later told the Independent newspaper "scared me off TV for a long time".
Dr Michael Goodman, deputy chairman of the BMA's consultants committee told The Independent he was concerned about the GMC referrals.
"He's as motivated as he has ever been and if he went off the track at times this season, it didn't embarrass him too much as he won the title, " Todt told the Independent newspaper.
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Explaining his decision to plead guilty, Cruz told the judge he was acting independent of higher authorities.
"The best team lost, independent of the sending off, " he told ITV Sport.
But while the PM said he would support "independent" regulation of the press, Mr Miliband told MPs that Labour continued to favour self-regulation.
Labour's Lord Harris of Haringey told peers that because the Boundary Commission is independent of government he had "drawn the short straw" to respond to the debate.
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Porter Goss, R-Florida, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday he wants to see whether the independent panel proposed by Gephardt and Roemer would replace or merely supplement the investigation by the intelligence committees.
Following the decision in February Andy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, said he had requested Jeremy Hunt to refer the decision to an independent panel and was told one of the affected councils needed to vote for that to happen.
Although no explicit mention of a bill to accept intercept evidence was mentioned in the Queen's Speech, Lord Carlile, the government's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told File on 4 he expected to see such evidence used in court by the beginning of 2008.
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His lawyers told the Old Bailey the SFO had been aware of a 1991 independent financial report which concluded he did not steal millions from the company.
On Monday Tory MP Rob Wilson told the Commons he had a "number of major concerns that the investigations announced by the BBC will not be sufficiently independent, transparent and robust to give the public confidence".
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