If someone in the crowd spits at you, you have just got to swallow it.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

The big thing is, everybody says it's being in the right place at the right time. But it's more than that, it's being in the right place all the time. Because if I make 20 runs to the near post and each time I lose my defender, and 19 times the ball goes over my head or behind me - then one time I'm three yards out, the ball comes to the right place and I tap it in - then people say, right place, right time. And I was there *all* the time.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.