To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

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

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.

Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance.