“If you’re in the penalty area and don’t know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we’ll discuss the options later.”

Mind you, I’ve been here during the bad times too – one year we came second.

I’d always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

Florida has been really cool to us. This is our first big club tour, and Pennywise has been really nice.

One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you’re lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don’t get lost. If there’s a secret about Liverpool, that’s it.

I can let the team do the talking for me.

The sort of lad I am looking for is a kid who will nutmeg Kevin Keegan in training, then step aside him in the corridor

Poland nil, England nil, though England are now looking the better value for their nil.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

He’s marked his entrance with an error of some momentum

And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

Life is a soccer field, don’t you think?

I should have done better, but it was just a very ugly and weird game… I knew the game was going to be an ugly game when I saw those three guys at the scorer’s table. Ugly people call ugly games.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.