I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

To see my country lose a football match is very hard for someone who has worn the shirt.

Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?

As I mentioned, I never had a conversation with him about this football team. It was always about what he needed financially and money. I never heard team, I always heard me and I and 'I need 10 million dollars. I'm a 10 million-dollar-a-year quarterback.