Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

All they can talk about is Manchester United.

Football management is such a pressurized thing - horse racing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.