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.

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

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.

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

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.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

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