If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.

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

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

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