The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.

Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.

Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

There's only one plan in football: win you next match.

Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family

Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A