What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.

Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.