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.

Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity

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

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

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.

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