“The second half was easy to sum up – and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)”

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting.

The fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of ‘pretty football’, that’s got to go.

I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don’t have pace.

In ’82 Brazil showed that you can’t win the World Cup without a solid defense.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side.

He’s sharp, he can score and he doesn’t worry about missing.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

And lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

You have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

I played against the Brazilians in ’82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I’d played golf I would have been skint.

You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close…

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain.

I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It’s just as hard; it doesn’t get easier, but that’s why I love it: because it’s a challenge every time. I also feel like I’m learning new ways.

Don’t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won’t respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, ‘Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.’.

Nothing comes easy for me but that makes me love it more.

Music was important. Football was the easy part.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.