With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most incredible coaches who's done a fantastic job in clubs all over Europe.

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.

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.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

He went in with his shuds stowing.