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From Becks to Posh, it’s been quite a football journey for Robbie Savage. One special photograph will quickly adorn Savage’s office at Peterborough United. It’s a photo of him in Manchester United’s youth team, sharing hopes and dreams with David Beckham and the Class of 92. Shortly after, Savage was released because he wasn’t considered good enough, crashed his car on the way home to break the bad news to his parents, and left him with a life-time of wanting to prove a point. He had that picture of Beckham, Butt, Scholes, the Nevilles and company in his manager’s office at Macclesfield and, until this week, Forest Green Rovers. The picture is a reminder of rejection and resilience. “People have always doubted me - and that drives me to prove people wrong,” the new Posh head coach says. “I’m a league manager now. I wish my dad was here to see me, because he'd be proud of me.” Colin Savage, the man Robbie calls “the best dad in the world”, passed away in 2012 aged 64 with Pick’s disease, a form of dementia. Part of the fuel driving Savage is his love for his late father, his hero, who supported him throughout the ups and down of his playing career. Fuel also flows from this mix within Savage to prove the doubters wrong and prove himself right. “I always have been quite insecure, a nervous person. People don't know me.” Social media can be an unforgiving place especially with Savage’s reputation as a pest of a midfielder with Crewe, Leicester, Birmingham, Blackburn, Derby and for Wales. He was a better player than often credited as 20 goals and 23 assists in English football’s top division would suggest. He winds some people up as a pundit on TNT and phone-in host on BBC 606. His radio co-host, Chris Sutton, often leads the charge teasing the thin-skinned Savage. He gives it back to Sutton, and gives opinions as well as juggles calls and timings. And here he also is, climbing the tiers of the pyramid, building a management career. “I captained four Premier League sides," he stresses. "I was a leader of four Premier League dressing rooms. Let's not forget that. I took the decision to start in management in step five. A lot of players who've played Premier League for 11 years, 346 games, would have thought, ‘right, that's not for me. I want to start high’ in management. I’ve done it the hard way. I've earned the right. And whatever happens, I'm a league manager now – of a fantastic football club, passionate people, with great people who care. “You can pull tweets off people who don't like me, I get it. All I'm going to do is give my best here. What enticed me here was when I heard Darragh (MacAnthony) speak so passionately about his football club. That just made me think, ‘right’, just that buzz, that energy, that being involved in football. I'm very lucky. I'm so happy, so thrilled, and my wife's happy, my sons are happy, my mum's happy.” Savage’s first League One game in charge is Leicester away on October 10. He jokes that he get could stick from both sets of fans. But Savage promises Posh fans, some of whom are sceptical about his appointment, that he will bring “explosive” attacking football in keeping with the club’s tradition, getting the ball to the in-form Harry Leonard. “I know the history (of attacking). You look at that front three: (George) Boyd, (Craig) Mackail-Smith and (Aaron) McLean.” All became club legends after arriving from non-League. He will also promote from within. “The philosophy in this football club is ‘produce our own’. I will work hugely closely with the academy manager, Dan Robinson. What they've done throughout the years here is incredible.” Will he continue his media work? “Yes, but if it gets in the way, I will stop.” Savage says his journeys to grounds doing television co-comms, whether non-League or above, will help his “learning” and also, potentially, “recruitment” plans. As for his phone-in with Sutton, Savage says, “I'm sure Chris will be all over it! If I can highlight the positives of this football club, I will do. I love football. My life is football.” That photo showed a lost opportunity but not a lost love for football. #PUFC

Dear @FA, can we invite Mexico for a Wembley friendly, please? Outside Azteca, England fans swapping shirts with Mexicans, England fans and Mexicans drinking and singing together. Mexico been wonderful hosts. Be great to see them and their fans at Wembley. Not been since 2010.