If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.