Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

For Chelsea, I would turn down every job in the world.

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.