I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

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.

For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'