If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

I do believe in fate.

I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing.

Everest in his slippers. That's what he was like.

As with every young player these days, Ronaldo is 18.

Scholes was probably the best English midfielder since Bobby Charlton. He was such a brilliant long passer that he could choose a hair on the head of any team-mate answering the call of nature at our training ground. Gary Neville once thought he had found refuge in a bush, but Scholesy found him from 40 yeards. He inflicted a similar long-range missile strike, once, on Peter Schmeichel, and was chased round the training ground for his impertinence. Scholesy would have made a first class-sniper.

It's great news. The reality of negotiations today is that they take time. But these have always been conducted in a good spirit and we are very pleased with the outcome. We can now look forward to the future.