Graham Taylor

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money. ”

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. ”

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day. ”

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness. ”

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities. ”

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them. ”

In football, time and space are the same thing. ”

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them. ”

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday. ”