The reason I start a novel is because there's something that excites me and I want to explore it.
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.
Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.
I think now Messi is probably done more than most players. But he is in the same class as Alfredo de Stefano, Johan Cruyff, Pelé. When he finishes and he retires, he will automatically become one of them. A player that people will talk about forever, while the game of football is as good and as popular as it is. He is a sensational player.
I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. Players like Denis Law and George Best who I enjoyed so much as team-mates and now, finally, players I have watched closely in the Alex Ferguson era. And in so many ways Scholes is my favourite. I love his nous and conviction that he will find a way to win, to make the killer pass or produce the decisive volley.
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.
I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
I love to bake, so I made vanilla bean and blueberry muffins for sick hospital children. Just kidding! All of that is true except the sick children part.