England are learning to walk before they can run with their feet nailed firmly to the ground.

Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day

Many of the Iranian players show their Christian names on their shirts.

That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

He went through a non-existant gap.

Some of Paul Scholes' tackles come in so late they arrive yesterday.

He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

If you cut Jamie Carragher open, he'll bleed red.

He is the man who has been brought on to replace Pavel Nedved. The irreplaceable Pavel Nedved.

One or two of their players aren't getting any younger

No, I thought. No way. I love her too much. I would never do that. And then again, those two words, her voice, exploding inside my head: “Tyler, wait!

When I was achild my worldwasn’t blackand white, it was grey, until I gotbeat upenough timesto realizemy skin wasbeige, anddifferent

Never place yourself above your fellow man, for we are all, each and every one of us, born of equal rights to the nourishing earth beneath and the wonder of the stars above.

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

The most important question any human being will ever face: 'Who do you say that Jesus is?'

I don't even hate books anymore.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen