I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

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

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.