With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

I think it's clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.

I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

If you want me to rule out ever being Manchester United manager, I can't. Special clubs need special managers, so in theory it could work.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'