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.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.