Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

You know I don't think there will ever be a time when the English player is not respected, and feared, across the world of football. The English footballer is very brave and strong and committed and there is always enough high-class players in his team to cause concern in any opponent. It is a national characteristic.

Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.