The first introduction I had with English football was in the FA Cup in the early '80s.
The FA have given me a pat on the back. I've taken violence off the terracing and onto the pitch.
I will never forget my first game for England at the World Cup, It was against Turkey... no I mean Tunisia.
I am not only privileged to work for the FA and England: I have enjoyed working for the FA and England.
They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!
I might feel a little bit empty, and it might get to me for a short time, but I'm hoping to keep my association with football and with broadcasting - I'm not retiring from everything; I'm retiring from the BBC. I'm certainly not going pipe and slippers.
The Premier League is different to Spain.
In Germany, the football association is the best.
You are never relaxed in England. You have a tough league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
You know the FA's the richest football association in the world? Well, I shouldn't say that. They're not the richest at all. What they do is they have the biggest turnover in the world with £325m.
I love English, Spanish, and German football.
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that the Premier League are the tigers in the English football jungle everybody's scared of.
At the German FA, they don't like criticism.
To an extent I agree that the FA hasn't done that much to tackle the problem of racism, but it's hard to police racism for the FA. How do they police it? Unless someone makes people aware of what has happened within a stadium, the FA would never know that it is happening.
I have won Serie B, Serie C, Serie D like the Championship, League One, and League Two here in England.
I Don't Care About FIFA. This is bullshit.
Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.
Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.
I've seen Graeme Jones getting absolutely crucified and I'm thinking, 'You've got it wrong,' He's one of the best things that's happened to the SFA. He's one of the main guys trying to drive the nation forward.
