Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.