This picture was taken when he won the Cyprus under-12 title in 1996. When I saw him play that match, I said to him, 'I'll see you on the big screen one day.' You could see he had the fire in his belly, even then.

Tonight's win proves we can overcome a bad half. It proves that we can play with anyone.

You do things bit by bit. That's the only way to play something really original, where the details stand out. You're not just showing us a cliched, generic character that you've seen before.

I was nervous a little bit out there, ... But after the first or second play, it was like, 'OK, what's the call?' And playing safety, you pretty much know the whole defense. You know what corners do, what the linebackers do. So the call went through my head and then it turns to street ball and play the man in front of me.

The play we ran on that didn't go as well.

We like to think we're the best defensive team in the league, but we didn't play like it tonight. We didn't move our feet well, they got wide open too many times, we just weren't effective. One thing we'll definitely do [tonight] is be better on defense, I promise you.