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.

The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

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

I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.

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

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