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

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.

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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The grace of living life is to give glory to God.

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

Extraordinary moments often involve a sense of connection, as well as communication, with something that we intuitively know goes well beyond this plane of reality.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life .

You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems.

People say, That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you doesn't kill you. That's all you get. Sometimes, you just have to hope that's enough.