"Towards the end the momentum was in our favour, we had our tail-feathers up and we thought we'd keep the building the pressure," he told BBC Wales Sport.
"It is very difficult to ask a favour when we have been asking for a favour for some time and never got a positive answer," said Haroun Mir, a Kabul-based analyst.
In many ways it did us a favour because we have had to seek new markets.
She's an icon of respecting other opinions, because we are against it, others are in favour, and we have to have a debate".
There is a natural tendency, as well, to favour players we have witnessed live over those whose deeds are dipped in sepia.
We will report the changing face of Burma without fear or favour, and we have made this clear to the Burmese government.
But we do this country's great history no favours unless we have a sensible debate.
Like others who favoured Remain, we have reiterated, ad nauseam, our acceptance of the referendum result.
"We recognise we play for ourselves and nobody is going to do us any favours so we have to deal with difficult situations and that's what we did," said the Dons manager.
