A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.

The trouble with the transfer window is it creates a window where transfers have to be done

It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

The rest of the Spice Girls wanted to invite the entire Bayern Munich team because they reckoned they'd never known blokes to be on top for 90 minutes and still come second.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

I can't stand Liverpool. I can't stand the people. I can't stand anything to do with them.

They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.