If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.