As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.