The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.

I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.

I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.

I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach.