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

I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

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.

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

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

A fan can be able to say what he wants, do what he wants - he pays his money.