I have no idea what kind of advice my father would have given me, were he still around. More than anything, I wish he could have been present at our press day. Then, everyone would have wanted to talk to him and it might have taken some of the attention away from us.

I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.

No cheating bastards will I talk to; I will not talk to any cheating bastards!

At last they've got a manager who speaks better English than they do

Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine.