It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

I'm a professional. I don't want people to read something about me in the tabloids going out with celebrities or whatever. It might be a bit boring but I have to give values to my children.

Arsenal have a goalkeeper emergency at the moment. I'll gladly step in.

Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.

He does not have my class.

I do not have a 24-year-old girlfriend. I have another life altogether.

In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.