The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

I'm surprised that they've gone for Scolari. He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success. He clearly knows his stuff but it's the difference culturally and [in] the football between Brazil and England that worries me. I think it will take him three or four years just to work out the crazy game we play.

World Cups can be career-defining.

The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.

A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.